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ja5on
10,338 Points
The DOM difficulty???

Posted April 20, 2021 3:07pm by ja5on

ja5on
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Edelweiss Villoria
4,801 Points
add list item and change list description not working

Posted March 1, 2021 8:28am by Edelweiss Villoria

Edelweiss Villoria
4,801 Points
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Karl Russell Sumando Menil
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 4,004 Points
cannot add item

Posted February 13, 2021 1:10am by Karl Russell Sumando Menil

Karl Russell Sumando Menil
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 4,004 Points
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jclaurent2
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,899 Points
wouldn't have been simpler to use only parentNode method at the 3:05 without an event target on li tags?

Posted September 15, 2020 8:44am by jclaurent2

jclaurent2
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,899 Points
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Jonathan Ambriz
Courses Plus Student 3,902 Points
The video says that I should be able to remove just the items in the list, but..

Posted September 7, 2020 6:51pm by Jonathan Ambriz

Jonathan Ambriz
Courses Plus Student 3,902 Points
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pacificbee
2,205 Points
What is the event object in this code?

Posted August 20, 2020 3:51am by pacificbee

pacificbee
2,205 Points
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Murilo de Melo
14,456 Points
I'm not sure I understood parentNode. Why not to apply event handler directly the parent element or item?

Posted July 10, 2020 7:47pm by Murilo de Melo

Murilo de Melo
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Hussein Ammar
11,106 Points
Slack channel

Posted July 3, 2020 6:59am by Hussein Ammar

Hussein Ammar
11,106 Points
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Paul Marshall
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 3,950 Points
if i click anyway on the page, everything gets deleted

Posted June 1, 2020 11:25pm by Paul Marshall

Paul Marshall
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 3,950 Points
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Kate C
13,589 Points
Why we don't need to write let button = event.target and just start with let li = event.target.parentNode;?

Posted May 16, 2020 2:47am by Kate C

Kate C
13,589 Points
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Robert Rydlewski
3,828 Points
Java Script bug. : (

Posted May 12, 2020 3:58pm by Robert Rydlewski

Robert Rydlewski
3,828 Points
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Kelsey George
7,504 Points
Code will not work

Posted April 18, 2020 7:12pm by Kelsey George

Kelsey George
7,504 Points
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Nebojsa Stevanovic
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,620 Points
I think i will need a week to understand this lession

Posted October 10, 2019 11:05pm by Nebojsa Stevanovic

Nebojsa Stevanovic
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,620 Points
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varlevi
8,113 Points
Remove Buttons not Working on Added Items

Posted September 12, 2019 12:43am by varlevi

varlevi
8,113 Points
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vamosrope14
14,932 Points
Can someone explain why the entire list div disappeared when he clicked the other button?

Posted June 15, 2019 7:22pm by vamosrope14

vamosrope14
14,932 Points
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Rochelle Burrows
8,528 Points
Calling 'parentNode' on list item returns 'null'.

Posted April 24, 2019 5:51pm by Rochelle Burrows

Rochelle Burrows
8,528 Points
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Luke Markham
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 17,289 Points
Why does the tagName have to be capitalized?

Posted March 21, 2019 9:00am by Luke Markham

Luke Markham
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 17,289 Points
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Ming Chi Wong
2,909 Points
DOM properties I still don't quite understand what each property means, for example event.target.tagName?

Posted February 26, 2019 8:19am by Ming Chi Wong

Ming Chi Wong
2,909 Points
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Michael Williams
Courses Plus Student 8,059 Points
I'm failing to see the usefulness of the parentNode property. Can someone explain it better?

Posted December 3, 2018 3:48am by Michael Williams

Michael Williams
Courses Plus Student 8,059 Points
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Kevin S
Data Analysis Techdegree Student 15,862 Points
What Exactly is event

Posted October 24, 2018 12:53pm by Kevin S

Kevin S
Data Analysis Techdegree Student 15,862 Points
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Rohit Sagar
5,938 Points
Traverse vs Event Bubbling

Posted September 10, 2018 5:01am by Rohit Sagar

Rohit Sagar
5,938 Points
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ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points
Why do we need parentNode of ul

Posted July 26, 2018 6:51pm by ammarkhan

ammarkhan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 21,661 Points
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Mahmoud Nasser
5,507 Points
DOM Traversal

Posted July 19, 2018 1:29pm by Mahmoud Nasser

Mahmoud Nasser
5,507 Points
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Saud Tauqeer
Courses Plus Student 8,099 Points
need help on the parent.node.

Posted July 7, 2018 2:43am by Saud Tauqeer

Saud Tauqeer
Courses Plus Student 8,099 Points
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vinayak sapkal
9,802 Points
difficulty to understand these part of code?

Posted July 6, 2018 4:36pm by vinayak sapkal

vinayak sapkal
9,802 Points
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Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points
Using parentNode to Traverse Up the DOM

Posted June 4, 2018 5:50am by Aakash Srivastav

Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points
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Carlos Reyes
30,056 Points
False impression min 3:16

Posted May 7, 2018 7:26pm by Carlos Reyes

Carlos Reyes
30,056 Points
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anthonybrackner
17,776 Points
Code Not Working

Posted April 25, 2018 6:20am by anthonybrackner

anthonybrackner
17,776 Points
4 Answers
babasariffodeen
6,475 Points
So removeChild is the only way to remove a node? It seems like extra work to have to get parent and then delete child

Posted February 20, 2018 7:23pm by babasariffodeen

babasariffodeen
6,475 Points
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Brian Patrick
Courses Plus Student 2,770 Points
Creating the listUl constant still removes all list items on button click.

Posted December 3, 2017 7:01am by Brian Patrick

Brian Patrick
Courses Plus Student 2,770 Points
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