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JavaScript

Julieta Dalla Pozza
Julieta Dalla Pozza
4,337 Points
Posted by Julieta Dalla Pozza
Julieta Dalla Pozza
4,337 Points

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My question is about to understand why we work on the console. I am working separately in VS and when i run var message = "hello"; but when i run an alert it does appear in the browser. I dont get what i am doing wrong.

Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,359 Points

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you are asking. Where are you running var message = "hello"; from, the console, or VS Code? And where are you running the alert from?

2 Answers

Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,359 Points
Jason Larson
Jason Larson
8,359 Points

if all you have is

var message = "hello";

there is nothing to display, whether you're talking about the console or in a webpage. If you add a console.log(message); statement after that, then you could get output in the console.

Having said that, usually you are going to have to attach your js to an HTML file (or have it inside an HTML file in <script> tags). If you are doing it that way, then you would need to open the html file in your browser, then you would inspect the page to view the developer tools, and then look in the console.

The other way to do it would be to install an extension in VS Code. One that I'm aware of is "Code Runner". Just go to Extensions and search for it and install it. Then, in your code, you would save the file and then right-click and choose "Run Code" (or press CTRL+ALT+N) and it will display in an output console.