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Kjetil-Lennart A. Lorentzen
13,390 PointsWhy let $newStudent = $('<li>Sam Smith</li>');
Why use let $newStudent = $('<li>Sam Smith</li>'); Won't this work? let $newStudent = "'<li>Sam Smith</li>'";
I'm trying to understand, but i can't find back to a video where she explained this. Have i skipped something?
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Cory Harkins
16,500 PointsYou aren't wrong, you can do either one, however, using jQuery's syntax you can access jQuery DOM methods that you wouldn't be able to use if you assign $newStudent = "<li>Sam Smith</li>"; as that is a string literal in vanilla javascript.
The benefit to using the jQuery way, is the ability to use DOM Traversing methods such as: .append(), .prepend(), etc...
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points$('<li>Sam Smith</li>') creates an element
"'<li>Sam Smith</li>'" on the other hand is just a string.
Kjetil-Lennart A. Lorentzen
13,390 PointsOh i get it now, the jquery way does the "CreateElement()" thing in the script? Ok, i just didn't catch that in the videos, Thanks guys!