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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 2 Solution

Ryan Duncan
Ryan Duncan
7,146 Points

Not displaying which questions were correct and which were wrong.

The rest of the code seems to run just fine. However, I cannot figure out why it is not printing to the screen which questions were correct and which were wrong.

var questions = [
  ['How many states are in the United States?', 50],
  ['How many continents are there?', 7],
  ['How many legs does an insect have?', 6]
];



var correctAnswers = 0;
var question;
var answer;
var response;
var html;
var correct = [];
var wrong = [];

function print(message) {
  var outputDiv = document.getElementById("output");
  output.innerHTML = message;
}

function buildList(arr) {
  var listHTML = "<ol>";
  for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 1) {
   listHTML + "<li>" + arr[i] + "</li>";
  }
  listHTML += "</ol>";
  return listHTML;
}

for (var i = 0; i < questions.length; i += 1) {
  question = questions[i][0];
  answer = questions[i][1];
  response = prompt(question);
  response = parseInt(response);
  if (response === answer) {
    correctAnswers += 1;
    correct.push(question);
  } else {
    wrong.push(question);
  }
}

html = "You got " + correctAnswers + " question(s) right."
html += "<h2>You got these questions correct:</h2>";
html += buildList(correct);
html += "<h2>You got these questions wrong:</h2>";
html += buildList(wrong);
print(html);

1 Answer

Matthew Cohen
Matthew Cohen
8,357 Points

From what I an see, you should a '+=' operator for the listHTML line of code inside the buildList function for loop.

function buildList(arr) {
  var listHTML = "<ol>";
  for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 1) {
   listHTML += "<li>" + arr[i] + "</li>"; 
  }
  listHTML += "</ol>";
  return listHTML;
}