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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,645 PointsHow do I select the element and change it
I am not sure how to get the p element and change its value to the inputValue var
var inputValue = document.getElementById('linkText').value;
const info = document.getElementsByClassName('.info');
info.textContent = inputValue;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>DOM Manipulation</title>
</head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
<body>
<div id="content">
<label for="linkText">Link Text:</label>
<input type="text" id="linkText" value="sample text">
<p class="info"></p>
</div>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsWhen you use getElementsByClassName, the argument is just the class name (no period). You may have been thinking of using querySelector.
Also, that function returns an element collection instead of a single element, so you'd need to use indexing to select the first element of the collection: info[0].textContent = inputValue;