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Python Web Development Techdegree Student 9,205 PointsIssues with Chrome?
I've tried using a simple server (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnPemSnnJYY) to follow along on my localhost but the code from this video doesn't work in Chrome for me. It works in firefox though. In Chrome only the first alert shows and neither the document.write function nor the second alert run, but they work in FireFox.
Can someone help me understand whats going on?
2 Answers

Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,698 PointsI found a stack overflow article that explains this idiosyncrasy: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/762416/why-isnt-chrome-running-this-javascript
You would need to wrap it like this:
document.open('text/html');
document.write("<h1>Welcome to JavaScript basics</h1>")
document.close();
In real life we hardly ever use document.write, so don’t worry about it too much.

Christian Emenike
3,787 PointsThis was a shock but thanks Brendan Whiting for the rescue.
Katherine Webster
Courses Plus Student 1,435 PointsKatherine Webster
Courses Plus Student 1,435 PointsThank you! I could not figure out why it wasn't working.