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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 2

Ben Ahlander
Ben Ahlander
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Posted by Ben Ahlander
Ben Ahlander
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print(message)

Why is the word "message" being used as the the selector for the print function?

davidkomando
davidkomando
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davidkomando
davidkomando
Courses Plus Student 9,017 Points

The word message is just a user preference. It just makes the function easy to read/follow.

Essentially you send the print function a message to display and it displays the message. In this case message really could be anything as long as it was changed in the document.write code as well. If you wanted to use the word msg or display_notes you could easily do that as well.