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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Create a Two Dimensional Array

Posted by Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins
10,080 Points

What syntax error is present?

It keeps showing a "syntax error"

script.js 
var coordinates [[],[]]
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript Objects</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

You're missing the assignment operator ("=") after "coordinates".

Also, and it won't cause an error, but at this point (since they asked for "an empty array literal") you only need one pair of braces on the other side of the assignment.

And while technically optional, it's always a "best practice" to add a semicolon at the end of a statement.