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

Posted by Dan McCarty
Dan McCarty
10,082 Points

Code not always working.

After doing the code in this tutorial I noticed it won't always work when filling in the prompt questions, it may ask 2 questions and then stop working, but a third time it works. Is javascript buggy like this?

var questions = 3;
var questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
var adjective = prompt('Please type an adjective' + questionsLeft);
questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
var verb = prompt('Please type a verb' + questionsLeft);
questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
var noun = prompt('Please type a noun');
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);
Ryan Duchene
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Points

Tweaked your post to add syntax highlighting. And no, it's not just you, the challenge engine has been a little buggy for me recently too. :)