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JavaScript jQuery Basics Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal Adding New Elements to the DOM

Posted by Dominykas Kuizinas
Dominykas Kuizinas
10,761 Points

Seriously what does this task ask's for ?!

"In app.js, use jQuery to create a new <li> element containing the student name "Sam Smith", and save your new element to a variable called $newStudent."

When I press "preview" I get the results that this task ask's for, so where is the problem ?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h2>Student List</h2>

    <ul class="student-list">
        <li>James McAvoy</li>
        <li>Alena Holligan</li>
        <li>Wade Christensen</li>
        <li>Matt Krzyzynski</li>
    </ul>

    <script
    src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
app.js 
var $newStudent = $(".student-list").append("<li>Sam Smith</li>");
Marius Posogan
Marius Posogan
11,184 Points

Hello Gajus, In the index.html, in the 'script' tag for jquery insert this path for 'src': src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"

Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points

Marius Posogan You don't have to touch the HTML file in this challenge.

1 Answer

Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points

Task 1 only wants you to create the li element. You will append it in task 2.

Let me know if that helps here

Dominykas Kuizinas
Dominykas Kuizinas
10,761 Points

It did helped me, thanks ! Just to be clear - I did it correctly in the first place, but only not in the way that task was requiring ?

Adam N
Adam N
70,280 Points

It wasn't 100% correct, but you were definitely on the right track. One thing that wasn't correct was - I don't think it's common to save the action of appending something to a variable.