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Joshua Phillips
3,429 Pointsfunction test
I am having trouble understanding what I should do to make the variable work with the function and the return. I have been trying to find the answer out myself, but I know I am missing something so simple for the solution. Please help!
function returnValue (car) {
var echo = returnValue (car);
return car;
}
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Joel Bardsley
31,249 PointsA couple of things wrong there:
Firstly you're trying to call your function within the function - take out the var echo line and move it outside of the function. Lastly, when calling the function you're passing an undefined car as the parameter/argument. You can either create a variable called car and give it a string value, ie:
var car = "Honda";
var echo = returnValue(car);
or you can pass the string into the function directly:
var echo = returnValue("Honda");
Hope that clears things up for you.
Joshua Phillips
3,429 PointsThank you! Moving the variable outside the function was what I needed.