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JavaScript

Posted by Emily Coleman
Emily Coleman
7,137 Points

Running into an issue with JavaScript alerts

I keep mirroring exactly what Dave McFarland is coding in the JavaScript Basics Random Number Generator demonstration, but for some reason I'm not getting prompts popping up like his code is. This has happened a few times with different challenges, and it eventually resolves, but I haven't found any specific action that I know is the one helping. Here is the code I am entering into the js file, and I checked the html file to make sure it's sourcing the js file correctly, and it is. Can anyone help?

var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6 ) + 1;
var guess = prompt(‘I am thinking of a number between 1 and 6. What is it?’);
if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber ) {
    document.write('<p>Ding ding ding! You got it</p>'); 
} else {
    document.write('<p>Sorry.  The number was ' + randomNumber + '</p>');
}
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,741 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,741 Points

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1 Answer

Osaro Igbinovia
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Osaro Igbinovia
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 15,928 Points
Osaro Igbinovia
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Osaro Igbinovia
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 15,928 Points

Hi Emily, your code is fine, the only issue is the punctuation marks within which you enclosed your question. I don't know what they are but they aren't the normal single(' ') or double quote marks(" "). Just change that and you're good to go :)

Emily Coleman
Emily Coleman
7,137 Points

Gosh, that's so weird. I'm using the normal key that has the apostrophe and quote mark. I don't know what could possibly be happening, but I'll give it a try. Thanks!