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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Making Changes to the DOM Modifying Elements

David Dehghani
David Dehghani
6,992 Points
Posted by David Dehghani
David Dehghani
6,992 Points

selecting text content.

Cant figure out how to do a.textContent without re declaring the variable. Please help!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DOM Manipulation</title>
    </head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <label>Link Name:</label>
            <input type="text" id="linkName">
            <a id="link" href="https://teamtreehouse.com"></a>
        </div>
        <script src="app.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>
app.js 
let linkName = document.querySelector('input').value;

input.value = a.textContent;

1 Answer

Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points
Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points

Hi,

You don't need to re-declare anything. The question asks you to set the 'text' value of the anchor tag to the value from the input field.

Think: find the 'a tag and change the 'innerText' to the input value.

David Dehghani
David Dehghani
6,992 Points
David Dehghani
David Dehghani
6,992 Points

YAS! Took me a while, but I selected the ("a").textContent and set it to the variable name.