doesn’t. it just returns [object HTMLCollection]. Does anyone know why?
// Create a "close" button and append it to each list item
var myNodelist = document.getElementsByTagName("LI");
var i;
for (i = 0; i < myNodelist.length; i++) {
var span = document.createElement("SPAN");
var txt = document.createTextNode("u00D7");
span.className = "close";
span.appendChild(txt);
myNodelist[i].appendChild(span);
}
// Click on a close button to hide the current list item
var close = document.getElementsByClassName("close");
var i;
for (i = 0; i < close.length; i++) {
close[i].onclick = function() {
var div = this.parentElement;
div.style.display = "none";
}
}
// Add a "checked" symbol when clicking on a list item
var list = document.querySelector('ul');
list.addEventListener('click', function(ev) {
if (ev.target.tagName === 'LI') {
ev.target.classList.toggle('checked');
}
}, false);
// Create a new list item when clicking on the "Add" button
function newElement() {
var li = document.createElement("li");
var inputValue = document.getElementById("myInput").value;
var t = document.createTextNode(inputValue);
li.appendChild(t);
if (inputValue === '') {
alert("You must write something!");
} else {
document.getElementById("myUL").appendChild(li);
}
document.getElementById("myInput").value = "";
var span = document.createElement("SPAN");
var txt = document.createTextNode("u00D7");
span.className = "close";
span.appendChild(txt);
li.appendChild(span);
for (i = 0; i < close.length; i++) {
close[i].onclick = function() {
var div = this.parentElement;
div.style.display = "none";
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
min-width: 250px;
}
/* Include the padding and border in an element's total width and height */
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
/* Remove margins and padding from the list */
ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
/* Style the list items */
ul li {
cursor: pointer;
position: relative;
padding: 12px 8px 12px 40px;
list-style-type: none;
background: #eee;
font-size: 18px;
transition: 0.2s;
/* make the list items unselectable */
-webkit-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}
/* Set all odd list items to a different color (zebra-stripes) */
ul li:nth-child(odd) {
background: #f9f9f9;
}
/* Darker background-color on hover */
ul li:hover {
background: #ddd;
}
/* When clicked on, add a background color and strike out text */
ul li.checked {
background: #888;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: line-through;
}
/* Add a "checked" mark when clicked on */
ul li.checked::before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
border-color: #fff;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 0 2px 2px 0;
top: 10px;
left: 16px;
transform: rotate(45deg);
height: 15px;
width: 7px;
}
/* Style the close button */
.close {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
padding: 12px 16px 12px 16px;
}
.close:hover {
background-color: #168e00;
color: white;
}
/* Style the header */
.header {
background-color: #168e00;
padding: 30px 40px;
color: white;
text-align: center;
}
/* Clear floats after the header */
.header:after {
content: "";
display: table;
clear: both;
}
/* Style the input */
input {
margin: 0;
border: none;
border-radius: 0;
width: 75%;
padding: 10px;
float: left;
font-size: 16px;
}
/* Style the "Add" button */
.addBtn {
padding: 10px;
width: 25%;
background: #d9d9d9;
color: #555;
float: left;
text-align: center;
font-size: 16px;
cursor: pointer;
transition: 0.3s;
border-radius: 0;
}
.addBtn:hover {
background-color: #bbb;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myDIV" class="header">
<h2 style="margin:5px">Groceries:</h2>
<input type="text" id="myInput" placeholder="Title...">
<span onclick="newElement()" class="addBtn">Add</span>
</div>
<ul id="myUL">
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Comments
Comment posted by Barmar
What are you expecting to happen? You can only save strings in local storage. What does it mean to save DOM elements?
Comment posted by Nick Parsons
local storage can only store strings, so, document.getElementsByTagName gets converted to it’s string representation, which happens to be
Comment posted by Fredthedoggy
its storing a list. is there any other way to do this?
Comment posted by Barmar
If these are input fields, you need to loop over them and collect their values with
