Build a Music Instrument Filter - Step 7

Tell us what’s happening:

The instruction of Step 7 seems ambiguous.

It says

Now, declare two variables selectContainer and productsContainer and assign them your HTML dropdown and the element with the class products-container, respectively.

It does not include the class select-container when the expected answer is code like this

const selectContainer = document.querySelector(".select-container");

.

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Music Instruments product page</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Student Instruments</h1>

    <main>
      <select class="select-container">
        <option id="all" value="all">All</option>
        <option id="woodwinds" value="woodwinds">Woodwinds</option>
        <option id="brass" value="brass">Brass</option>
        <option id="percussion" value="percussion">Percussion</option>
      </select>

      <div class="products-container">
        <div class="card">
          <h2>Flute</h2>
          <p>$500</p>
        </div>
        <div class="card">
          <h2>Clarinet</h2>
          <p>$200</p>
        </div>
        <div class="card">
          <h2>Oboe</h2>
          <p>$4000</p>
        </div>

        <div class="card">
          <h2>Trumpet</h2>
          <p>$200</p>
        </div>
        <div class="card">
          <h2>Trombone</h2>
          <p>$300</p>
        </div>
        <div class="card">
          <h2>French Horn</h2>
          <p>$4300</p>
        </div>

        <div class="card">
          <h2>Drum Set</h2>
          <p>$500</p>
        </div>
        <div class="card">
          <h2>Xylophone</h2>
          <p>$3000</p>
        </div>
        <div class="card">
          <h2>Cymbals</h2>
          <p>$200</p>
        </div>
        <div class="card">
          <h2>Marimba</h2>
          <p>$3000</p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </main>
    <script src="./script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
*,
*::before,
*::after {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

:root {
  --dark-grey: #0a0a23;
  --white: #ffffff;
  --yellow: #f1be32;
}

body {
  background-color: var(--dark-grey);
  color: var(--white);
}

h1 {
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.select-container {
  display: block;
  margin: 25px auto;
  padding: 8px;
  border: 4px solid var(--white);
  border-radius: 4px;
  width: 200px;
}

.products-container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  gap: 20px;
}

@media (min-width: 760px) {
  .products-container {
    flex-direction: row;
  }
}

.card {
  background-color: var(--white);
  color: var(--dark-grey);
  border: 4px solid var(--yellow);
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 10px;
  width: 200px;
}
/* file: script.js */
const instrumentsArr = [
  { category: "woodwinds", instrument: "Flute", price: 500 },
  { category: "woodwinds", instrument: "Clarinet", price: 200 },
  { category: "woodwinds", instrument: "Oboe", price: 4000 },
  { category: "brass", instrument: "Trumpet", price: 200 },
  { category: "brass", instrument: "Trombone", price: 300 },
  { category: "brass", instrument: "French Horn", price: 4300 },
  { category: "percussion", instrument: "Drum Set", price: 500 },
  { category: "percussion", instrument: "Xylophone", price: 3000 },
  { category: "percussion", instrument: "Cymbals", price: 200 },
  { category: "percussion", instrument: "Marimba", price: 3000 }
]

// User Editable Region

Now, declare two variables selectContainer and productsContainer and assign them your HTML dropdown and the element with the class products-container, respectively.

const selectContainer = 
const productsContainer = document.querySelector(".products-container");
// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build a Music Instrument Filter - Step 7

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/workshop-music-instrument-filter/step-7

Check your HTML file for the appropriate selector for the dropdown element.

I don’t have an intuitive feeling about that.

Scroll through your HTML file, locate the select element, and see if it has an ID, class, or other selector you could use to access it.

you can use whatever selector works, the tests are checking you are selecting the right element, not how you are selecting it

@KMweb88
@ILM
I’m a bit unclear about the term ‘HTML dropdown’.
Why is it so easily interpreted in the way you described?

This is the dropdown element, which drops down into a list of items when you click it.