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Kevin Naegele
10,868 PointsJava is not running in console
When I run my java script the console shows errors, and i do not get any prompts or logs besides 404. I am using chrome and i have tried on my computer and from a my web hosting
7 Answers
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher404 means file not found. Are you loading this JS from an external JS file? Then open the HTML page and make sure
- the path in the
<script>tag is correct. - You've correctly spelled the name of the JS file
For example:
<script src="myjava.js"></script>
Ana Gledovic
7,465 PointsHey Kevin,
Paste us some code to see what's wrong :D
Best, Ana
Kevin Naegele
10,868 PointsGreat idea!
console.log("Hello from myjave"); // this is not needed
console.log("BAM");
var name= prompt(, "What is your name");
alert("hello" + name);
Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherHi Kevin Naegele To put code into a forum post use triple back ticks -- ``` — around the code. I fixed your code here, but in the future here's a forum discussion that describes how to add HTML, CSS, JavaScript or other code to the forum: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/posting-code-to-the-forum
Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherThe prompt() function requires 2 arguments -- the first is the question you want to ask and the second is text that appears INSIDE the text field the user types into. I usually just pass an empty string for this:
var name= prompt("What is your name", "");
Kevin Naegele
10,868 PointsI changed it to only be
console.log("Hello from myjave.js"); // this is not needed
console.log("BAM");
still not showing and getting a 404
Kevin Naegele
10,868 PointsThanks
Kevin Naegele
10,868 PointsI must of had an extra space in the code, but meow it is working great. :D