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JavaScript Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript Perform: Traversing Elements with querySelector

Eliot Murton
Eliot Murton
7,315 Points
Posted by Eliot Murton
Eliot Murton
7,315 Points

"Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ("

Hi. I am following the instructions for the Deep Dive titled "Interactive Web Pages With JavaScript" and as far as I can tell I have exactly the same code as the video dictates, yet I am getting "Uncaught Syntax Error: Unexpected token (".

Can anybody recommend the best site for me to paste my code so it can be checked and I can be told where the issue is? (I was going to paste it in here but I think the code is too long for it to let me)

1 Answer

Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points
Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points

Eliot,

You can check out JSLint to validate your JavaScript.

This error you're getting though is indicative of some erroneous syntax; check the line if the error gives one, otherwise pour over your code and read it very carefully, making sure that you're closing every set of parenthesis and brackets, that you have all necessarily commas and semi-colons, equals signs, etc. It's very easy to make these mistakes, and very tricky (initially) to hunt down the culprit, but it is doable and you'll get better at it with practice.

Erik