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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Build a Random Number Guessing Game

Posted by Nicollette Whitfield
Nicollette Whitfield
4,526 Points

document.write("<p> Sorry. The number was" + randomNumber + </p>") Why is the last (+) sign before the closing <p>tag

document.write("<p> Sorry. The number was" + randomNumber + </p>") Why is the last (+) sign before the closing <p> tag necessary?

1 Answer

John Halbert
John Halbert
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John Halbert
John Halbert
12,922 Points

Your title doesn't exactly match the body of your question, so I'll try to explain the best way I can.

Basically, to create a valid HTML element, you need a beginning <p> tag and and ending </p> tag. This JavaScript will generate a paragraph element with a valid structure, with a variable value inside.

Nicollette Whitfield
Nicollette Whitfield
4,526 Points

Thank you!