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David Enus
646 PointsThe document.write method wasn't called? Please help me to understand this statement.
I am not understanding how to correct this statement. The document.write method wasn't called?
var count = 0;
while ( counter <26) {
counter += 1;
var counter = counter (26);
document.write( '26');
}
2 Answers
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsHi David,
It looks like you're trying to write the contents of the counter variable to the screen ,but all that would happen here is you'd get 26, written out 25 times.
But there's a few things you need to do here and you only need the one count variable
var count = 0;
while ( count <26) {
count += 1;
document.write(count);
}
First, you need to use a while expression that tests the count variable. You don't need to make a new variable.
Then, to make sure the value always changes until the expression becomes true, as you correctly guessed you use an operator to increment the value
Finally, document.write wasn't being called because you were passing in a string the code didn't know what to do with.
All you do is pass in the count variable as its argument.
Hope this helps! :-)
David Enus
646 PointsThank you so much, that makes understanding it so much simpler. Have a great day