Can you remove the class on which you selected an element?

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In the context of this exercise, can you remove the class on which you selected an element?

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Yes, you can remove the class from the element you selected them on. For example, you can do the following,

$('.className').removeClass('className');

It is important to keep in mind that once you remove a class, you cannot select it again using that class name, and to reapply it to an element, you must select it using another attribute.

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In this https://www.codecademy.com/paths/web-development/tracks/learn-jquery/modules/learn-jquery-style-methods/lessons/jquery-style-methods/exercises/remove-class I do not see the visual effect of $(’.nav-menu’).removeClass(‘hide’); after commentint it out, The webpage still behaved the same.

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What the previous poster said is correct; to clarify, at the start of the exercise the nav-menu displays when you hover over the menu-button even though the nav-menu has the ‘hide’ class ( class=“nav-menu hide”), so removing the ‘hide’ class doesn’t appear to have any visual effect, I think this is because in the event handler, ‘show()’ is called on the nav-menu before removeClass().

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