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Kelvin Lin
550 PointsI don't know what's wrong? var answer = prompt("what day is today?")
There comes a window. So i don't know what's wrong
var answer = prompt('what day is it?');
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="scripts.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
3 Answers
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 PointsHi Kelvin,
The challenge is just being picky - it's expecting "What" to be capitalized.
// this fails
var answer = prompt("what day is it?");
// this passes
var answer = prompt("What day is it?");
Abe Layee
8,378 PointsI belive the question is asking you to store the answer var into the prompt() function like this.
var answer;
prompt("What day is it?");
answer = prompt;
Kelvin Lin
550 Pointsoh~~Yes Robert. It works right now! So the problem is capitalized!
Christian Andersson
8,700 PointsChristian Andersson
8,700 PointsSorry for posting this off-topic, but I'm helping Treehouse investigate a potential issue with their webserver. Please follow this link and leave a comment saying if you have experienced this webserver issue or not.
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