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John Cho
354 Pointshow do you return the value to the variable yearToday?
im upto the 3rd challenge. i get how to call the function. i thought i knew how to return the value to a new var but its saying task 1 no longer works.
function getYear() {
var year = new Date().getFullYear();
return year
}
var yearToday = return getYear();
getYear();
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Corwayne Steaman
2,489 PointsHello John, just something I noticed when doing the same challenge, although the code was right for the javascript. Mine wasn't running, I had to change the html file content="text/html" to content="text/javascript" only then I was successful.
Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 PointsYou're super close!
function getYear() {
var year = new Date().getFullYear();
return year
}
var yearToday = getYear();