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JavaScript

Posted by Jeremy Diallo
Jeremy Diallo
3,846 Points

Can't display two dialog boxes

Hi, I'm a starter with Javascript. I was trying to run the example of the course on Chrome, but it doesn't work. Here's my code :

console.log("Program started");
var message = "Hello!";
alert(message);
message = "Welcome to Javascript Basics";
alert(message);
console.log("Program ended");

First of all, nothing actually displays in the console which is really bad for troubleshooting. Secondly, my browser only displays one dialog box (the first one), while in the example, it does automaticlly displays another dialog box as it interprets the other lines of code...

I don't understand what's happening...

Zeshan Ahmed
Zeshan Ahmed
13,151 Points

Working fine for me on console on Chrome: http://recordit.co/IIwFzMJo5r.gif. Are you getting any errors in console while adding this code?

1 Answer

Mark Casavantes
PLUS
Mark Casavantes
Courses Plus Student 13,401 Points
Mark Casavantes
Mark Casavantes
Courses Plus Student 13,401 Points

Jeremey,

Your code worked fine for me as well. You have to click on the dialog box to see your second message.