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JavaScript

Posted by JJ T
JJ T
6,276 Points

Prompt box is not appearing

I followed Dave to the letter but when I preview my page there doesn't show up a prompt box. Can someone please take a look at my code.

var input1 = prompt("Please type a starting number"); var bottomNumber = parseInt(input1); var input = prompt("Please type a number"); var topNumber = parseInt(input); var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * (topNumber - bottomNumber + 1)) + bottomNumber; var message = "<p>" + randomNumber + " is a number between " + bottomNumber + " and " + topNumber + ".</p>; document.write(message);

2 Answers

Stephan Olsen
Stephan Olsen
6,650 Points
Stephan Olsen
Stephan Olsen
6,650 Points

You're really close, it's just the syntax that's a little off when you create the message. You've missed an apostrophe at the end of your message. Your message should look like this:

var message = "<p>" + randomNumber + " is a number between " + bottomNumber + " and " + topNumber + ".</p>";
JJ T
JJ T
6,276 Points

hahaha Thx !

Yuval Blass
Yuval Blass
18,134 Points
Yuval Blass
Yuval Blass
18,134 Points 
var input1 = prompt("Please type a starting number"); 
var bottomNumber = parseInt(input1); 
var input = prompt("Please type a number"); var topNumber = parseInt(input); 
var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * (topNumber - bottomNumber + 1)) + bottomNumber; 
var message = "<p>" + randomNumber + " is a number between " + bottomNumber + " and " + topNumber + ".</p>"; // You forgot to close the quotation mark here. 
document.write(message);
JJ T
JJ T
6,276 Points

Very helpful, thx !