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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Your First JavaScript Program

Drew Van Roekel
Drew Van Roekel
463 Points
Posted by Drew Van Roekel
Drew Van Roekel
463 Points

I'm extremely new to programming and I'm having some trouble with this question...

I'm having some trouble understanding the basics. Please help.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>

<script>
<"Welcome to my site">;

</script>

</html>
Drew Van Roekel
Drew Van Roekel
463 Points
Drew Van Roekel
Drew Van Roekel
463 Points

Figured it out. Thanks all :D

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

In the video preceding this challenge you were introduced to two functions, alert and document.write. Both of those functions performs some kind of action. The alert function creates a popup containing the string (text) you pass to it and the document.write function writes whatever string you provide it to the webpage itself.

Since the challenge asks you to write the words to the webpage the function you have to use is document.write. The way you call and pass data into a function is by placing parentheses after the function name and then the value within those parentheses.

So if I wanted to write the message "Hello World!" to the webpage the code would look like this:

document.write("Hello World!");

The code you have to place within the script tags is pretty much identical, you just have to change the message from "Hello World!" to "Welcome to my site".

Edit: I see my response was a bit late, oh well as long as you managed to figure it out that's all that matters. I'll leave this response up in case others ends up struggling with the same challenge.

Thomas Fildes
Thomas Fildes
22,687 Points
Thomas Fildes
Thomas Fildes
22,687 Points

Hi Drew,

Don't be afraid of not knowing something. Everyone starts off somewhere and have been in the same position as you :)

I used the following code below to pass this challenge:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>

<script>
// Write your code here.
  document.write("Welcome to my site");

</script>

</html>

Hope this helps! Happy Coding!!!

Keep it up :D