I Need Help Randomizing an Tag

Question

I'm in the process of coding a random joke generator, and I was wondering how I could randomize the destination of an tag. I have good JavaScript skills, but as a 12 year old, I'm new to HTML and CSS. I don't know if it matters, but I code on Replit.

My idea is that I have three buttons, each determining the type of joke to generate, and then each has an tag that leads to a separate file with a joke. Currently, I have this

But of course, it only leads to one file, which means one joke, which means sad. I'm thinking that Javascript would be able to fix this, and I could maybe use a tag to import it or something. If you can help, then thank you!

Lissy93 · Answer

The key is to break it down:

Define your list of possible destinations
Select one at random
Grab the DOM element to change
Set the DOM element's href link to your random page

Here's a working example:

const destinations = [
  'my-destination-1.html',
  'my-destination-2.html',
  'my-destination-3.html',
  'my-destination-4.html',
  'my-destination-5.html'
];
 
const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random()*destinations.length);

const randomDestination = destinations[randomIndex];

const randomJokeLink = document.getElementById('random-joke-link');

randomJokeLink.setAttribute("href", randomDestination);

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