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Posted by Arica Van Boxtel
Arica Van Boxtel
1,823 Points

Need help making an alert box

Here is the code I have, and I cannot seem to open it in a web browser to see an alert pop up. I have saved it as an html file and I am using Chrome. Any suggestions to troubleshoot would be great!

<!doctype html>

<html lang="en">
    <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>My Page</title>
    <link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“application.css>
    <script type=“text/javascript”>
        alert(Hello World!);
    </script>
</head>
    <body>


    </body>

</html>

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You're having quote-related issues.

  • Some of your quote characters seemed to have gotten mangled so re-type those
  • Missing close quote mark on application.css
  • In JavaScript strings need to be enclosed in quotes

Once I fixed those 3 issues it worked.

Arica Van Boxtel
Arica Van Boxtel
1,823 Points

Thank you so much - that worked!

julianttt
julianttt
960 Points
julianttt
julianttt
960 Points 
<script>
alert("Its working");
</script>