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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Strings Methods

Posted by Nick Harmon
Nick Harmon
5,900 Points

Quick length code challenge

JIm keeps asking us to update the quickLength line of code but every time I do it just says "bumme!, was expecting 43"

What am I doing wrong? Jim's course in JS is driving me nuts. Thanks!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title> JavaScript Foundations: Strings</title>
    <style>
      html {
        background: #FAFAFA;
        font-family: sans-serif;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
    <h2>Strings: Methods</h2>
    <script>
      var quick = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";

          var quickLength    = quick;
          var indexOfBrown = quick;
          var tenthCharacter = quick;
          var wordBrown = quick;
          var quickUpper = quick;
          var quickLower = quick;
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

Modify the variable quickLength to hold the length of quick.

var quickLength = quick.length;
jdh
jdh
12,334 Points
jdh
jdh
12,334 Points

are you just looking for the solution to the first question?

he's asking you to find the length of the variable quick so 

      var quick = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
      var quickLength = quick.length;

Mozilla MDN is usually pretty helpful for explanations on methods: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/length