I’m currently following the tutorials from The Coding Train on p5.js and I’ve run into a problem with the createA() DOM element. They are a bit older and I’m not sure if this is a bug or something I’m doing wrong… In videos 8.13 and 8.14 Dan use ‘#’ instead of a url, like this: var a = createA('#'…

Welcome! Your code would normally run just fine, but you’ll have to tweak it a little to work with the p5 Editor. TL;DR Try changing var a = createA('#', 'apples'); to var a = createA('about:srcdoc#', 'apples'); The longer story: the p5 Editor runs your sketch in an iframe , which is a way to em…

Using createA() with a '#' instead of a url loads the current page in the web editor

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Using createA() with a '#' instead of a url loads the current page in the web editor

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