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JavaScript JavaScript Objects Loop Through Objects Store Objects in Arrays

Micah Angelica Baguio
Micah Angelica Baguio
3,409 Points

Storing objects in an array

I don't know what's wrong? When I tested it in a console, it keeps saying there's an error.

// 1. Create an array to hold quiz questions and answers
const questions = [
  {
    question: 'How many planets are in the Solar System?', 
    answer: '8'
  },

  { 
    question: 'How many continents are there?',
    answer: '7'

  },

  {
    question: 'How many legs does an insect have?', 
    answer: '6'
  },

  {
    question: 'What year was JavaScript created?',
    answer: '1995'
  }
];

// 2. Store the number of questions answered correctly
const correct = [];
const incorrect = [];
let correctAnswers = 0;

/* 
  3. Use a loop to cycle through each question
      - Present each question to the user
      - Compare the user's response to answer in the array
      - If the response matches the answer, the number of correctly
        answered questions increments by 1
*/
for ( let i = 0; i < questions.length; i++ ) {
  let question = questions[i].question;
  let answer = questions[i].answer;
  let response = prompt(question);

  if ( response === answer ) {
    correctAnswers++;
    correct.push(question);
  } else {
    incorrect.push(question);
  }
}

function createListItems(arr) {
  let items = '';
  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    items += `<li>${arr[i]}</li>`;
  }
  return items;
}

// 4. Display the number of correct answers to the user
let html = `
  <h1>You got ${correctAnswers} question(s) correct</h1>
  <h2>You got these questions right:</h2>
  <ol>${ createListItems(correct) }</ol>

  <h2>You got these questions wrong:</h2>
  <ol>${ createListItems(incorrect) }</ol>
`;

document.querySelector('main').innerHTML = html;

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

This code seems to work fine. It does require that the HTML part contain a <main> section, do you have that (the HTML code isn't shown here)? If that was missing it would cause an error when running.

For future questions, a better way to share code and make your issue easy to replicate is to make a snapshot of your workspace and post the link to it here.

Micah Angelica Baguio
Micah Angelica Baguio
3,409 Points

I found what's the error was. Thank you!