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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Appending and Removing Elements

Posted by Jon Willey
Jon Willey
6,102 Points

Having trouble removing var pleaseEnableParagraph from the body of HTML doc.

I am having difficulty with this code challenge and have been unable to remove the requested code.

app.js 
var body = document.body;
var newParagraph = document.createElement("p");
var pleaseEnableParagraph = document.querySelector("#please_enable");

//Remove "Please Enable JavaScript" paragraph

pleaseEnableParagraph.removeChild(body[0]);


//Append new paragaph to document
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <p id="please_enable">Please Enable JavaScript</p>

    <script src="app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Byington
Steven Byington
13,584 Points
Steven Byington
Steven Byington
13,584 Points

You need to remove the paragraph from the body element. You are trying to remove the paragraph from the paragraph. Here is the code that works for me.

body.removeChild(pleaseEnableParagraph);