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Jim Awofadeju
4,097 PointsHow do I insert spaces in between words of a string?
I am working on The Storymaker app in the JavaScript Basics course. I was able to ask the user for input with the prompt command, stored the input in a variable, added that variable to strings to get a longer message, used the alert() method to display a dialog box with text, and write the output to the webpage with document.write(). However, this is the output that I got:
The goodboy ishelping
There is no space in between the words "good" and "boy" and in between "is" and "helping". How can I fix this? Here is the JavaScript code that I typed in story.js:
var noun = prompt("Please enter a noun: "); var adjective = prompt("Please enter an adjective: "); var verb = prompt("Please enter a verb: "); var message = 'The ' + adjective + noun + ' is' + verb; alert("The story will now be displayed."); document.write(message);
Please help me with this string formatting issue. Thank you.
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherYou could do it like this:
var message = 'The ' + adjective + ' ' + noun + ' is ' + verb;
Try that out and see if it looks better
Jim Awofadeju
4,097 PointsI tried out your code and the printed output was better. Thank you.