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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers The Random Challenge Solution

Val Ki
Val Ki
1,997 Points
Posted by Val Ki
Val Ki
1,997 Points

trying to figure out why my prompt isn't popping up

Hi everyone, I trying to complete the challenge along with the teacher video and for some reason, my prompt isn't popping up when I add preview my work. Please help!

var input = prompt("Please type a number"); var topNumber = parseInt(input); var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * topNumber) + 1; var message = "<p>" + randomNumber + " is a number between 1 and " + topNumber + ".</p>; document.write(message);

1 Answer

Calin Bogdan
Calin Bogdan
14,921 Points

Hi there!

By 'not popping up' you mean the prompt dialog doesn't show up or the input you typed doesn't add to the page?

I tested your code and the prompt dialog does show up. Anyway, there's one mistake I've noticed. You forgot to add a closing quote on the </p> tag. Your code has it as "</p> instead of "</p>". Changing that should make it work.

See the working code below.

var input = prompt("Please type a number");
var topNumber = parseInt(input); 
var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * topNumber) + 1; 
var message = "<p>" + randomNumber + " is a number between 1 and " + topNumber + ".</p>"; 
document.write(message);

I hope it helped!