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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Storing and Tracking Information with Variables Capturing Visitor Input and Writing It to the Page

Posted by Heriberto Perez
Heriberto Perez
1,298 Points

Use the prompt() method to ask the user "What day is it?" and store the result in the answer variable. I am stuck with e

I wrote:

var answer prompt ("What is your name?"); var answer = prompt("What is your name"); alert(answer);

scripts.js 
var answer
prompt ("What day is it");
var answer = prompt ("What day is it");
alert(answer);
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="scripts.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

4 Answers

Salman Akram
PLUS
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points
Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Heriberto,

You have missed question ? inside prompt message. 

var answer = prompt ("What day is it?");
Heriberto Perez
Heriberto Perez
1,298 Points
Heriberto Perez
Heriberto Perez
1,298 Points

Thank you so much! i didn't realize it

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Great, it happened to us all the times.

Happy Coding! :)

P.S: Please make sure to mark best answer that solve your question if possible and also prevent others from similar mistakes.

Michelle de Haan-Pitman
Michelle de Haan-Pitman
2,310 Points
Michelle de Haan-Pitman
Michelle de Haan-Pitman
2,310 Points

Something else which should be causing a problem is declaring the answer variable twice. You either need to rename the second one or if you want to reuse the answer variable then delete the second var keyword.

Hope this helps a little.

Shruti Kapoor
Shruti Kapoor
2,388 Points
Shruti Kapoor
Shruti Kapoor
2,388 Points

var answer;

prompt("What day is it?" );

answer = prompt("What day is it?" );

document.write (answer);

Tonye Jack
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Tonye Jack
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 12,469 Points 
var answer;

//prompt("What day is it?" ); //No need to prompt twice

answer = prompt("What day is it?" );

document.write (answer);