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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Your First JavaScript Program

Kyle Rosse
Kyle Rosse
11,857 Points
Posted by Kyle Rosse
Kyle Rosse
11,857 Points

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do here. Write first Javascript program

I don't think this was covered in the video I just watched. It had me doing stuff in a specific .js document, and now I keep getting syntax errors

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>

<script type="text/javascript">

  function newContent()
  {
document.write(<h1>Welcome to my site.</h1>)
               }
</script>

</html>

1 Answer

Trevor Austin
Trevor Austin
8,153 Points
Trevor Austin
Trevor Austin
8,153 Points

Hey Kyle, You are pushing a string to the write() function. Since this is a string, make sure to include quotes like so:

document.write("<h1>Welcome to my site.</h1>")

Remember can always test code like this in the browser Console :)

-Trevor