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JavaScript DOM Scripting By Example Improving the Application Code Refactor 1: Create List Items

Jamie Campbell
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Jamie Campbell
Courses Plus Student 7,603 Points

What is wrong with my code?

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  const form = document.getElementById('registrar');
  const input = form.querySelector('input');

  const mainDiv = document.querySelector('.main');
  const ul = document.getElementById('invitedList');

  const div = document.createElement('div');
  const filterLabel = document.createElement('label');
  const filterCheckBox = document.createElement('input');

  filterLabel.textContent = "Hide those who havent responded";
  filterCheckBox.type = 'checkbox';
  div.appendChild(filterLabel);
  div.appendChild(filterCheckBox);
  mainDiv.insertBefore(div, ul);
  filterCheckBox.addEventListener('change', (e) => {
    const isChecked = e.target.checked;
    const lis = ul.children;
    if (isChecked) {
      for (let i = 0; i < lis.length; i += 1) {
        let li = lis[i];
        if (li.className === 'responded');
          li.style.display = '';
      } else  {
      li.style.display = 'none';
      }
    }
      else  {
      for (let i = 0; i < lis.length; i += 1) {
        let li = lis[i];
        li.style.display = '';
      }
    }
  });

  function createLI(text) {
    function createElement(elementName, property, value) {
      const element = document.createElement(elementName);
      element[property] = value;
      return element;

    }

    function appendToLi(elementName, property, value) {
        const element = createElement(elementName, property, value);
        li.appendChild(element);
      return element;
    }

    const li = document.createElement('li');
    appendToLi('span', 'textContent', text);
    appendToLi('label', 'textContent', 'Confirmed')
      .appendChild(createElement('input', 'type', 'checkbox');
    appendToLi('button', 'textContent', 'edit');
    appendToLi('button', 'textContent', 'remove');
    return li;
  }

  form.addEventListener('submit', (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    const text = input.value;
    input.value = '';
    const li = createLI(text);
    ul.appendChild(li);
  });

  ul.addEventListener('change', (e) => {
    const checkbox = event.target;
    const checked = checkbox.checked;
    const listItem = checkbox.parentNode.parentNode;

    if (checked) {
      listItem.className = 'responded';
    } else {
      listItem.className = '';
    }
  });

  ul.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
    if (e.target.tagName === 'BUTTON') {
      const button = e.target;
      const li = button.parentNode;
      const ul = li.parentNode;
      if (button.textContent === 'Remove') {
      ul.removeChild(li);
     } else if (button.textContent === 'Edit') {
      const span = li.firstElementChild;
      const input = document.createElement('input');
      input.type = 'text';
      input.value = span.textContent;
      li.insertBefore(input, span);
      li.removeChild(span);
      button.textContent = 'Save';
    } else if (button.textContent === 'Save') {
      const input = li.firstElementChild;
      const span = document.createElement('span');
      span.textContent = input.value; 
      li.insertBefore(span, input);
      li.removeChild(input);
      button.textContent = 'Edit';
    }
    }
  });   
});

1 Answer

Have you run this through the console to check for errors? The first one is:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token else on line 25

This is due to using a semicolon on line 23 where there should be a bracket

if (li.className === 'responded');

should be

if (li.className === 'responded') {

With that fixed the second error is:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token else on line 29

Here you are missing the closing bracket for the if (isChecked) statement

    else  {

should be

 }   else  {

I'll leave the rest for you