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JavaScript

Posted by Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

prompt or alert

how do you retrieve the information input into a prompt text frield and use it in your next line of code in javascript? say 

prompt ("whats your name");

now when can i retrieve the name that the user enters and use it my next life of code,please? i know theres a video by Jim Hoskins but got a bad memory and can't remember where member which course exactly so any referral to the video would be very much helpful. thanks

1 Answer

Jeremy Menicucci
Jeremy Menicucci
19,227 Points
Jeremy Menicucci
Jeremy Menicucci
19,227 Points

All you need to do is set it as a variable and call the variable later on.

var name = prompt("What's Your Name?");
console.log(name);
Kelvin Atawura
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Kelvin Atawura
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,022 Points

thanks mate struggled remembering that. that was helpful