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JavaScript The Solution

Clinton Tessin
Clinton Tessin
10,084 Points
Posted by Clinton Tessin
Clinton Tessin
10,084 Points

My alerts are not coming up.

Here is my code

var colorquestion = prompt("What is your favorite color?"); var streetquestion = prompt("What street did you grow up on?"); var questions = colorquestion.toUpperCase() + ' ' + streetquestion.toUpperCase(); var characterCount = questions.length; alert("The string \"" + questions + " " is " + characterCount + " characters long.");

I'm having a hard time understanding the quotes with . When I preview the code, nothing comes up. It's just a blank white page.

1 Answer

Emmanuel C
Emmanuel C
10,636 Points
Emmanuel C
Emmanuel C
10,636 Points

Hey, If you want to use double quotes inside a string you can wrap the whole string inside single quote. The same works vice versa.

alert('The string "' + questions + '" is "' + characterCount + '" characters long.');

to escape characters in JS you can use backslash \ before the character you want to escape, but youll have to do it before each character, which is not convenient for this situation 

'John Doe\'s example   '