javascript-view-swapping

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

-It is a property of an event which is a reference to the element upon which the event was fired.

Question 2

What is the affect of setting an element to display: none?

Answer 2

-It removes the element from the document.

Question 3

What does the element.matches() method take as an argument and what does it return?

Answer 3

• argument: selectorString (a string representing the selector to test)
• return value: boolean value

Question 4

How can you retrieve the value of an element’s attribute?

Answer 4

-getAttribute method

Question 5

At what steps of the solution would it be helpful to log things to the console?

Answer 5

-whenever you want to check what the code is doing

Question 6

If you were to add another tab and view to your HTML, but you didn’t use event delegation, how would your JavaScript code be written instead?

Answer 6

-It would be written much longer because you would have to target each tab and view element.

Question 7

If you didn’t use a loop to conditionally show or hide the views in the page, how would your JavaScript code be written instead?

Answer 7

-It would be written much longer because you would have to target each tab and view element and check if each element passes the conditionals.