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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers The Mad Libs Challenge Revisited

Posted by Larissa de Gast
Larissa de Gast
5,987 Points

Prompts are not executing, please help me review my code

Good day all,

My prompts are currently not executing and I was wondering what I can change to make the code work. Thanks in advance! I will post my code down below.

var questions = 3; var questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]'; var adjective = prompt('Please type an adjective' = questionsLeft); questions -= 1; questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]'; var verb = prompt('Please type a verb'); questions -= 1; questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]'; var noun = prompt('Please type a noun' + questionsLeft); alert('All done. Ready for the message?'); var sentence = "<h2>There once was a " + adjective; sentence += ' programmer who wanted to use JavaScript to ' + verb; sentence += ' the ' + noun + '.</h2>'; document.write(sentence);

Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points

You can surround your code by triple backticks to make it more readable

var questions = 3;
var questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
var adjective = prompt('Please type an adjective' = questionsLeft); // seems you wrote an `=` here instead of a `+`
questions -= 1; 
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
var verb = prompt('Please type a verb'); // not breaking but you forgot to include questionsLeft here
questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
var noun = prompt('Please type a noun' + questionsLeft);
alert('All done. Ready for the message?'); 
var sentence = "<h2>There once was a " + adjective;
sentence += ' programmer who wanted to use JavaScript to ' + verb;
sentence += ' the ' + noun + '.</h2>';
document.write(sentence);

alternatively, you can share snapshot of your workspace.

1 Answer

Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points

The = on line 3 is likely the problem.

prompt('Please type an adjective' = questionsLeft)

Larissa de Gast
Larissa de Gast
5,987 Points

Thanks for your answer and the help Zimri!