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Joseph Quintiliano
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 14,338 PointsinputValue = document.querySelector('.info').textContent is wrong????
the second task made no sense, i wrote
inputValue = document.querySelector('.info').textContent; //this said i was wrong but these lessons never went over that it needs to read from left to write or right to left...i thought x=y and y=x was the same????
it only took the following code, why is that??
document.querySelector('.info').textContent = inputValue;
var inputValue = document.querySelector('input').value;
<!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>
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,236 PointsThe target of the assignment (the thing being changed) is always the term on the left of the = operator.
This wouldn't be covered in this specialty course, it would likely be in a preliminary course like JavaScript Basics.
Joseph Quintiliano
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 14,338 Pointsoh wait, i think its because im CHANGING the .textContent to inputValue, not changing inputValue to the textContent since there is no text content to begin with correct???