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11,817 PointsThere are three hidden items on this page-- a div and two list items. Use jQuery's :hidden pseudo selector to select onl
There are three hidden items on this page-- a div and two list items. Use jQuery's :hidden pseudo selector to select only the hidden list items. Then use the show() method to expose the hidden elements.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<h2>Star Trek Characters</h2>
<ul class="character-list">
<li>Captain Jean Luc Picard</li>
<li>Data</li>
<li>Warf</li>
<li>Dr. Crusher</li>
</ul>
<div>I am supposed to stay hidden!</div>
<script
src="jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
const $hidden = $("div,li:hidden");
3 Answers
deebird
7,558 PointsYou need to select all hidden list items then show them. You are currently just setting a variable to select all divs and all hidden list items
$('li:hidden').show();
anthony stachowitz
5,335 PointsThis code produced the correct result but was not accepted with this reason: Bummer:
Unexpected AST node type passed to processExpressionStatement method: VariableDeclaration.
Why?
const $hidden = $(`ul`).find(`:hidden`)
$hidden.show();
Dhanuka Anushanga
13,347 Points$('ul.character-list li:hidden').show();