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Cora Weiss
Courses Plus Student 1,271 Pointsmy code is identical to the code demonstrated in the debugging challenge, but the alerts are still not showing up.
alerts not showing up in the preview
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> <title>What's wrong with this script?</title> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <h1>Can you get the JavaScript to work?</h1> <script src="scripts.js"></script> </div> </body> </html>
console.log("start program"); alert("Help me fix this program!"); alert("Can you get this message to appear?"); document.write("<h2>My first JavaScript program</h2>"); document.write("<p>I'm practicing 'debugging'.</p>"); console.log("end program");
3 Answers
Jeff Lemay
14,268 PointsThis code works for me. Do you have script tags wrapped around it?
<script>
console.log("start program"); alert("Help me fix this program!"); alert("Can you get this message to appear?"); document.write("My first JavaScript program"); document.write("I'm practicing 'debugging'."); console.log("end program");
</script>
Jae Min Kweon
4,695 PointsTry using ctrl+r or f5 after you load up the preview page.
Juan Hernandez
Courses Plus Student 98 PointsJust press f5 and relaunch preview
Jack Dinker
Courses Plus Student 1,374 PointsJack Dinker
Courses Plus Student 1,374 PointsYour browser is caching their code and not reloading the changes you've made even after saving. You would have to clear your cache every time. In order to make this easy, if you are using Chrome, download Cache Killer to have it clear your cache every time you open a page.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cache-killer/jpfbieopdmepaolggioebjmedmclkbap?hl=en