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

Not seeing the list of correct/wrong

The quiz.js asks the questions and it appears to function correctly but when it comes time to display it seems not to want to display the list items correctly.

// Prompts users for answers to questions

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]
];

// Variable declarations
var correctAnswers = 0;
var question;
var answer;
var response;
var correct = [];
var wrong = [];

// Prints the results in a specific location in the index.html
function print(message) {
  var outputDiv = document.getElementById('output');
  outputDiv.innerHTML = message;
}

// Builds and formats output
function buildList(array) {
  var listHTML = '<ol>';
  for(var i = 0; i < array.length; i += 1) {
    listHTML += '<li>' + array[i] + '</li>';
  }
  listHTML = '</ol>';
  return listHTML;
}

for (var i = 0; i < questions.length; i += 1) {
  question = questions[i][0];
  answer = questions[i][1];
  response = parseInt(prompt(question));
  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

Hi Robert,

This line right here seems to be the culprit, should be close to line 27:

listHTML = '</ol>';

this assignment should be changed to +=

That was it exactly. Thanks :-)