javascript-view-swapping

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

event.target refers to the element that triggered an event.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Setting an element’s display property to none will cause the element to be hidden from view on the web page.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The Element.matches() method takes a single argument, which is a CSS selector that specifies the element or elements you want to match. The method returns a boolean value indicating whether the element matches the given selector.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

getAttribute({attribute you’re looking for})

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Along the way at each step

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

you would need to attach event listeners to each 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

you would have to set up listeners for each tab you would use if else statements for each element.