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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge Solution

William Mock
William Mock
1,543 Points
Posted by William Mock
William Mock
1,543 Points

Won't even run

Although I'm sure there's a typo or two in my program, theoretically it should at least do SOMETHING, right??? And yet all I'm getting is the HTML. No clue where I went wrong.

Kosti Wessman
Kosti Wessman
869 Points
Kosti Wessman
Kosti Wessman
869 Points

Post your code, please.

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Not necessarily. Some syntax errors end in just that... an error with nothing being rendered to the page at all. This is sort of the beast of programming. To assist you we're going to need to see your code. Likely as not, though, there's an error being reported in your browser's developer tools but I'm not sure if you're familiar with those or not.

Anthony Mendonca
Anthony Mendonca
5,008 Points
Anthony Mendonca
Anthony Mendonca
5,008 Points

Hi William, you probably wrote your code like so? var answer1 = prompt('Name a programming language that's also a gem');

If so, you wouldn't get any output as you would get an error in your browser's console as you need to escape the single quote for all the questions, like so: var answer1 = prompt('Name a programming language that\'s also a gem');

Hope this helps!

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Anthony Mendonca
Anthony Mendonca
5,008 Points
Anthony Mendonca
Anthony Mendonca
5,008 Points

Hi William, you probably wrote your code like so? 

var answer1 = prompt('Name a programming language that's also a gem');

If so, you wouldn't get any output as you would get an error in your browser's console as you need to escape the single quote for all the questions, like so: 

var answer1 = prompt('Name a programming language that\'s also a gem');

Hope this helps!