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JavaScript The Solution

Joey Sudmeier
Joey Sudmeier
2,203 Points
Posted by Joey Sudmeier
Joey Sudmeier
2,203 Points

Prompts not working for any of my practices; am I missing something?

I continue to have issues with my JavaScript, after I code and "view" the prompts and alerts don't seem to work. I'm sure I'm missing something in syntax but not sure what. Here is the full code I have for this assignment:

var nameFirst = prompt ("What is your name?"); var whereFrom = prompt ("Where are you from?"); var fullText = nameFirst.toLocalUpperCase() + " from " + whereFrom.toLocaleUpperCase(); var characterCount = full.length; alert "The string " + fullText + " is " + characterCount + " characters long.";

It is linked properly to the html file and document has been saved prior to viewing.

Thanks for your help!

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

It looks like you have a few issues:

  • you wrote "toLocalUpperCase" instead of "toLocaleUpperCase"
  • you wrote "full.length" but you have no variable named "full" — perhaps you meant "fullText.length"?
  • you alert function call must be followed by parentheses () — the argument goes inside them

In future, to make posted code readable, please always use the instructions for code formatting in the Markdown Cheatsheet pop-up below the "Add an Answer" area. :arrow_heading_down:

Joey Sudmeier
Joey Sudmeier
2,203 Points
Joey Sudmeier
Joey Sudmeier
2,203 Points

Hi Steven,

I renamed my variables just to be safe and failed to change the "full" one. Thank you for the detailed reply, you're correct and that fixed it. I think I've been overlooking the parentheses for alerts which has caused my problem with all of the js projects I've been working on...so that's very helpful.

Thanks again, Joey