Build a Reusable Mega Navbar - Step 1

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

I keep getting the error You should return an empty pair of round parentheses inside the Navbar function.

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Hello World</title>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/react@18/umd/react.development.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@18/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>

    <script src="https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js"></script>
    <script
      data-plugins="transform-modules-umd"
      type="text/babel"
      src="index.jsx"
    ></script>
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="root"></div>
    <script
      data-plugins="transform-modules-umd"
      type="text/babel"
      data-presets="react"
      data-type="module"
    >
      import { Navbar } from './index.jsx';
      ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(
        <Navbar />
      );
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
*,
*::before,
*::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

:root {
  --white: #fff;
  --light-grey: #e1e0e0;
  --dark-purple: #7c0e7c;
  --black: #000;
}

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

.navbar {
  background-color: var(--white);
}

.navbar ul {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-around;
}

.navbar ul li {
  list-style: none;
  border-radius: 4px;
}

.navbar ul li a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: var(--black);
  padding: 10px;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 100%;
}

button {
  background: transparent;
  border: none;
  font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
  padding: 10px;
  font-size: 1rem;
}

.navbar ul .nav-item a:hover {
  background-color: var(--dark-purple);
  color: var(--white);
}

button:hover {
  background-color: var(--dark-purple);
  color: var(--white);
}

.navbar ul .nav-item .sub-menu {
  visibility: hidden;
  opacity: 0;
  position: absolute;
  right: 5%;
  transition: opacity 0.5s ease;
  display: block;
  background-color: var(--white);
}

@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .navbar ul .nav-item .sub-menu {
    right: 15%;
  }
}

@media (min-width: 1024px) {
  .navbar ul .nav-item .sub-menu {
    right: 13%;
  }
}

.navbar ul .nav-item:hover .sub-menu,
.navbar ul .nav-item:focus-within .sub-menu {
  visibility: visible;
  opacity: 1;
}

/* file: index.jsx */

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import React from 'react';

export function Navbar() {
  return {
    ()
  }
}


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Challenge Information:

Build a Reusable Mega Navbar - Step 1

2

Hi there! Why did you use curly braces after the return statement?

3

Actually not sure why but it does not fix the issue though

4

what code do you have now?

5 
export function Navbar() {
  return (
    // Return a pair of parentheses as a placeholder
    ()
  );
}
6

a single pair of parenthesis, you are returning two pairs one inside the other. You also may need to remove the comment

7 
export function Navbar() {
  return ();
}

Current code still get You should return an empty pair of round parentheses inside the Navbar function.

8

without the semicolon please

9

Okay please explain why that worked?

10

It seems that the test has not been optimized to accept all valid code (I think the presence of the semicolon is valid). The other situations were not returning “an empty pair of round parentheses”.

11

Ah makes sense now, thanks for the help and the explanation