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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers The Mad Libs Challenge Revisited

Angela Poldervaart
Angela Poldervaart
3,192 Points
Posted by Angela Poldervaart
Angela Poldervaart
3,192 Points

Code doesn't work

Hi there, I'm really confused about something. I typed the code exactly as he did in the video, but when I preview it nothing happens. Well, the prompt code is working but it isn't saying how many questions are left or no story showing up after I typed an adjective, noun and verb and an alert won't show up either. I just don't get it because the code is exactly the same as in the video. Is this a bug?

4 Answers

Angela Poldervaart
Angela Poldervaart
3,192 Points
Angela Poldervaart
Angela Poldervaart
3,192 Points

This is weird. It seems like the problem solved itself. I changed nothing in my code and everything is suddenly working now. Anyway, thank you guys! :)

anil rahman
anil rahman
7,786 Points
anil rahman
anil rahman
7,786 Points

Link your workspace or if it's small amount of code just copy and paste it here.

Radu Suba
Radu Suba
6,260 Points
Radu Suba
Radu Suba
6,260 Points

No it not a bug its working for me...Here is my code....

var question = 3; var questionLeft = "[" + question + " question left]"; var adjective = prompt('Please type an adjective'+ questionLeft);

question -= 1; questionLeft = "[" + question + " question left]"; var verb = prompt('Please type a verb'+ questionLeft);

question -= 1; questionLeft = "[" + question + " question left]"; var noun = prompt('Please type a noun' + questionLeft);

alert('All done. Ready for the message?');

var sentence = "<h2>There once was a " + adjective; sentence += ' programmer who wanted to use JavaScript to ' + verb; sentence += ' the ' + noun + '.</h2>'; document.write(sentence);

Tristan Lawrence
Tristan Lawrence
3,582 Points
Tristan Lawrence
Tristan Lawrence
3,582 Points

You can try using CTRL+Shift+J and view the error on the console. I think it may be in areas of slow internet connection but what I think has happened is that it may not have successfully saved all your code. Viewing in the console.log area you might be able to see which line it has failed. In my instance it failed at line4 and said that I didn't define questionsLeft when in fact I did. Hope this helps.