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Brenda Bouchard
5,028 PointsChalenge 2 Task 2
I don't understand the'#' symbol
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
console.log(id.toUpperCase());
var userName = id + lastName;
console.log(lastName.toUpperCase());
var userName = ("id '#' lastName");
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Colin Bell
29,679 PointsIt's just wanting you to concatenate an all uppercase id with a literal # character followed by an all uppercase version of lastName and set it all as the userName variable.
Since you want the values of id and lastName variables, you don't put quotes around them. You do want the actual # character, so you put quotes around it. Use the + sign to concatenate in JavaScript:
var id = "23188xtr";
var lastName = "Smith";
var userName = id.toUpperCase() + "#" + lastName.toUpperCase();
TJ Egan
14,420 PointsWhat are you trying to achieve? The # sign is used to denote an 'id'
<div id = "main"><div>
This would be accessed with the # symbol, such as #main