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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Storing and Tracking Information with Variables Capturing Visitor Input and Writing It to the Page

Tina Stewart
Tina Stewart
964 Points
Posted by Tina Stewart
Tina Stewart
964 Points

What does oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing mean?

Show me how to capture visitor input and write it to the page.

scripts.js 
var answer="Today is Thursday.";
prompt("What day is it?");
document.write(var answer=prompt"What day is it?");
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="scripts.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Dima Fedin
Dima Fedin
7,651 Points
Dima Fedin
Dima Fedin
7,651 Points

You need to ask the user to prompt and save his answer to variable answer. You need write:

var answer = prompt('What day is it?');
document.write(answer);

And that's all.