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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Write Another Program

Posted by Elizabeth Hinson
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Elizabeth Hinson
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 15,852 Points

I received an error to call the alert. I typed alert("Warning!");

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
  <script src="script.js"></script>
    <script>
    alert("Warning!");
  </script>

</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

Your "alert" code is fine. The problem is that there is an extra set of "script" tags on the line above the good code that are trying to load in an external file named "script.js".

This is not part of this challenge and the extra tags should be removed.