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Spencer Renfro
Courses Plus Student 11,133 PointsExplanation of inner.HTML
I do not understand how main.innerHTML works. IS this targeting something in the index.html file?
1 Answer
Caleb Kemp
12,754 PointsIt is not targeting anything in the index.html file. When a website wants to render a page in the browser, it creates what is called a "Dom" object. To store all the values it will need. If it's displaying text, is the font bold or italic, what font size is it, etc.? All these are properties that the Dom must store. For each element on the page, the Dom will create an object for it with a list of all its values stored as properties. Well, when you put text inside of HTML tags i.e <p>TEXT</p>, the Dom will store that text in the object under the property name inner.HTML. So, since the object was referenced by the name "main", const main = document.queryselector('main'); (from line 1 of Guil's code), to get the text inside of its tags, you would write "main.innerHTML". Hope that helps a little bit
