JavaScript View Swapping

Question 1

What is the event.target?

Answer 1

reference to the element that the event is being called upon.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

makes the item invisible. but still there.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

takes the selector as an argument and returns true or false

Question 4

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

Answer 4

getAttribute()

Question 5

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

Answer 5

every step to make sure nothing is going wrong

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

more event listeners to combat the changes in the use of it on the eventlistner on the children.

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

major amount of if statements