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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Creating Elements

create a new span element and assign it to newSpan

On line 2 of app.js, create a new span element and assign it to newSpan

app.js
var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
var newSpan = document.createSpan ("newspan");

Never guys i got this

var newSpan = document.createElement('span');

1 Answer

Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

You create the new span element the same way as the div element, with document.createElement(), like this:

var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
var newSpan = document.createElement ("span");