JavaScript View Swapping

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

The element the event is firing and is dispatching the event from

Question 2

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

Answer 2

It makes it so the content is taken out of document flow and is hidden from view

Question 3

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

Answer 3

It takes in a selector and returns a boolean

Question 4

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

Answer 4

By using the getAttribute() method

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Basically at all steps during a solution, just be logging things

Question 6

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

Answer 6

More event handlers on more specific elements would be implemented

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

More conditionals having to compare elements to each other would have to be implemented.