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JavaScript DOM Scripting By Example Editing and Filtering Names Fix DOM Manipulation Code

Im kinda stuck on this one.

Not sure what to replace "false" with.

app.js
const laws = document.getElementsByTagName('li');
const indexText = document.getElementById('boldIndex');
const button = document.getElementById('embolden');

button.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
    const index = parseInt(indexText.value, 10);

    for (let i = 0; i < laws.length; i += 1) {
       let law = laws[i];

       // replace 'false' with a correct test condition on the line below
       if (false) {

           law.style.fontWeight = 'bold';
       } else {
           law.style.fontWeight = 'normal';
       }
    }
});
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Newton's Laws</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Newton's Laws of Motion</h1>
  <ul>
    <li>An object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on by an outside force.</li>
    <li>Acceleration is dependent on the forces acting upon an object and the mass of the object.</li>
    <li>For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.</li>
  </ul>
  <input type="text" id="boldIndex">
  <button id="embolden">Embolden</button>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Bella Bradbury
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Bella Bradbury
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Hello Adlan!

The question is a little confusing, but it's essentially saying that there's a text field in the content of the site where we can enter the index value of one of the list items and it will make only the list item associated with the index that we entered stand out. i.e. If we entered 0 it would bold the first li item, 1 would be the second li item, and 2 would be the third. The numbers are one off because an index begins with 0 and not one.

In this challenge we're using a for loop to iterate over each of the three li elements to see if any of their index's match the text field input. We only need to write the conditional statement, the rest is taken care of.

In the parameters for the for loop, i is set up to refer to each individual li item as the loop iterates. To be able to bold the correct list item of the three provided we'll need to write a conditional that checks if the value of the text input is equal to one of the list items' index. We'll use i (which has already been established by the for loop) to refer to the individual li items, then a strict equality operator (===) to compare i with the index for each of the li items. All in all, the conditional we've build would be:

(i === index)

Hope this helps!