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pacificbee
2,205 PointsSelecting an element and its id with querySelector?
Is it acceptable/make sense to use querySelector to select an element as well as its id (e.g. a button with the id "toggleList)? I was able to get the code below to work but we haven't learned anything about it so far...I thought this might make the code clearer since there are multiple buttons.
const toggleButton = document.querySelector('button#toggleList');
const toggleList = document.querySelector('.list');
const input = document.querySelector('input.description');
const p = document.querySelector('p.description');
const button = document.querySelector('button.description');
toggleButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
if (toggleList.style.display == 'none') {
toggleButton.textContent = 'Hide List';
toggleList.style.display = 'block';
} else {
toggleButton.textContent = 'Show List';
toggleList.style.display = 'none';
}
});
button.addEventListener('click', () => {
p.innerHTML = input.value + ':';
});
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,008 PointsThe tag name "button" isn't needed, since element ID's must be unique on the page.
And "querySelector('#toggleList')" will give you the exact same result as "getElementById('toggleList')", so either one will do the job for this exercise.