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Alistair Murphy
743 PointsWhat is my mistake?
Kinda new to coding and stuck, yeah i know, noob. it says task one is no longer passing yet after i try it it pops up saying "yay i did it" in an alert box above the page. making me think yeah this is right ? ...no?
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="shout.js"></script>
<script>
alert ("I DID IT!");
</script>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer

Chris Lawton
10,372 PointsYou're really close!
Just move
alert ("I DID IT!");
in to the shout.js file (it's the tab next to index.html) and then delete the empty <script></script> tag from index.html