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Wil Silvestrini
5,069 PointsHow to answer?
I have no idea. Question: Now that you've created the returnValue function, call it, by passing it a literal string value -- a series of characters in quote marks like this: 'My argument'. Store the results of the function in a variable named echo.
function returnValue(test){
return test;
var echo
}
<!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
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHi Wil,
You're on the right track. Your function is correct, except you need to remove the 'var echo' from it. The second part of the challenge wants you to "call" the function and store the result in a variable called 'echo.' To call a function is just functionName();
The challenge however, want a string passed into the function call, so your code will look like this:
function returnValue(test){
return test;
}
var echo = returnValue("Hello");
Hope this makes sense and helps you. Jason :)
Chris Adamson
132,143 PointsFor this challenge, you don't need a separate html file to invoke the method (having the html file in the challenge is a little misleading):
function returnValue(a) {
return a;
}
var echo = returnValue("My argument");