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Maurice Tafolla- Cunningham
7,708 PointsThe prompt is not showing, why is that?
in scripts.js I typed:
prompt("What is your name?");
and it didn't work when I saved and hit the preview button, so I typed:
prompt('What is your name?');
That didn't work either when I saved and previewed. Do I really just suck at Javascript?
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsThat code is correct. Where are you writing this code? Is it on the challenges or somewhere else?
Maurice Tafolla- Cunningham
7,708 PointsHi Adam I am writing this in Treehouse's browser-based text editor.
I am currently in: JavaScript > Javascript Basics > Storing and Tracking Information with Variables > Capturing Visitor Input
4 Answers
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsAre you sure you entered the prompt command as the value of the variable.
Like so:
var answer = prompt("What day is it?");
This way the prompt that will appear is linked to the answer variable. That way whatever day the user types will already be stored and you may call it somewhere else to perform an action.
Maurice Tafolla- Cunningham
7,708 PointsAbsolutely. It doesn't matter what I type in to scripts.js, or where I place it in the index.html nothing displays.
I tried moving the <script src="scripts.js"></script> into the head of index.html. I even renamed the scripts.js to something else.
This is most likely a bug with the Workspace. (I also tried opening and closing my current session and switching to a blank version and that did not produce results.)
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsI just created a workspace here and it worked perfectly. Can you access this workspace?
Maurice Tafolla- Cunningham
7,708 PointsYeah I checked out your workspace; however, there was no way to preview the work I was doing.
I can see under js > main.js your example and how it should all work. I just moved on from the video and am on the next one where the workspace is working fine. I was able to replicate the results from the previous video so it's not a big deal.
I noticed that the code in main.js was the answer for the quiz AFTER the video titled "Capturing Visitor Input". I just want to make sure you know where I encountered this bug. It was in the workspace for the "Capturing Visitor Input" video and not in the quiz titled "Capturing Visitor Input and Writing it to the Page".
The workspace in question is "JavaScript Basics - Capturing Visitor Input".
I'll let Treehouse sort it out, thanks for your help.
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsI will get it reported to the staff at Treehouse for you. Hope the remainder of the course goes well for you and good luck.
Luke Liem
6,367 PointsIn my Window 8 Chrome, at first the prompt did not show. But the moment I hit "Refresh", the prompt appeared.
Dawn Mercurio
2,501 PointsThe same worked for me on Chrome on my Mac.
Tauan Flores
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,277 PointsThe workspace it's not working.. =/
Tauan Flores
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,277 Pointsonly if you create a new one, if you use the video launch doesnt save, or do anything
Michael Kalmykov
8,919 Points+1 to this, Chrome on mac and while alerts in previous lessons worked the prompt in this lesson does not until I refresh.
replicated project in Atom and works as expected on first load.
I'm going to be powerhousing through these JS lessons I hope you guys have some devs looking into the JS bugs in your workspaces
Maurice Tafolla- Cunningham
7,708 PointsMaurice Tafolla- Cunningham
7,708 PointsIn order to answer if I really just suck at Javascript I replicated this exercise on my computer in Sublime Text and it worked. Treehouse I suggest you look into your text editor.
Cheers