What am I missing in my Javascript code?

Question

I am trying to make javascript code work to search for a date, it it is the same then an alert box would pop up. Mine is not working 100%. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?

```<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang ="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>HTML Video Assignment</title>
            <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" initial-scale=1>

    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Prociono" rel="stylesheet">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="normalize.css"> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
</head>

    <body>

       <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Registration Due</th>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>Grant</td>
            <td id="date">020319</td>
          </tr>
    </table>



     <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.0.min.js"></script>
     <script src="code.js"></script>
    </body>
    </html>

``` prompt("Please enter todays date", "090616");

var todaysDate = prompt(''); var regDate = document.getElementById("date");

if(todaysDate === regDate){ alert("a registration is due!");
} else { alert("No registrations are due!"); }

Answer 1 · 2016-11-27T08:48:45Z

November 27, 2016 8:48am

first you need to set the value property of the HTML element and then grab the value in your variable like so..

var regDate = document.getElementById("date").value;

And then your conditional statement should work.

Answer 2 · 2016-11-27T16:01:40Z

November 27, 2016 4:01pm

Also, it looks like you forgot a quote. It should be this:

var todaysDate = prompt("");

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What am I missing in my Javascript code?

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