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this challenge say this.

Alter the 'elevatorCloseButton' function to follow the best practices in declaring variables within the scope of the function.

my answer is this

function elevatorCloseButton(pushed) {

  var status = "open",
        elevator;
        name = "elevator" 

    if (pushed) {
            var status = ("I'll close when I'm ready.");
    }

}
elevatorCloseButton(false);
elevatorCloseButton(true);

but the system say this.

You should only need to do 'var status' once. I do not understand what is wrong and leave only "status", but still wrong can you help me please?

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title> JavaScript Foundations: Variables</title>
    <style>
      html {
        background: #FAFAFA;
        font-family: sans-serif;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
    <h2>Variables: Hoisting</h2>

    <script>

    function elevatorCloseButton(pushed) {
            var status = "open",
            elevator;
            name = "elevator" 

        if (pushed) {
                var status = ("I'll close when I'm ready.");
        }

    }
    elevatorCloseButton(true);
    elevatorCloseButton(true);


    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2015-01-24T00:46:40Z

January 24, 2015 12:46am

Declare the variable status at the beginning of the function then remove the declaration of the variable status within the If conditional block.

like this:

function elevatorCloseButton(pushed) { var status; if (pushed) { status = "I'll close when I'm ready."; } }

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