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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Your First JavaScript Program

Posted by Lemuel Canady
Lemuel Canady
4,402 Points

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've tried alert() and document.write(). Neither are working for me unfortunately.

I'm sure it's a simple problem that I'm just not seeing. Thank you for the help!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>

<script>
// Write your code here.
  document.write('Welcome to my website');
</script>

</html>

2 Answers

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hi Lemuel,

First off, just to let you know, there is no problem with the quotes you are using. You can use single or double quotes if you wish. The only problem you have is that you have "website" instead of "site". So, as soon as you change that, your challenge will pass! :)

document.write('Welcome to my site');
Veronica Rivera
Veronica Rivera
32,599 Points
Veronica Rivera
Veronica Rivera
32,599 Points

you need to use "" instead of ''

so it's

document.write("Welcome to my site");

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

The first part of your answer is incorrect. You can use either double quotes or single quotes. The problem is that the string they want you to write is "Welcome to my site" (as you put) but Lemuel has "Welcome to my website" and that is causing the challenge to give a bummer output.

Veronica Rivera
Veronica Rivera
32,599 Points

The example the instructor gave in the video preceding the code challenge had double quotes in it so I assumed you would need to use double quotes. He did not specify that you can write javascript in double or singles.

Regardless. The answer I typed in did give a correct answer but thanks for pointing that out for anyone who has the same issue.

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

You absolutely can write strings in JavaScript using either a set of double quotes or a set of single quotes. In fact, there are more than a few ways to do so. The reason why your answer was correct was because of the text content itself, not the quotes surrounding the content.

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

There's more than a few ways to pass this challenge:

//all of these are valid code and will pass the challenge
document.write("Welcome to my site");
document.write('Welcome to my site');
//double quotes outside, single inside
document.write("'Welcome to my site'");
//single quotes outside, double inside
document.write('"Welcome to my site"');
//using the String function to pass a string using either double or single quotes
document.write(String("Welcome to my site"));
//and more than likely more ways that I'm forgetting at the moment