whats wrong

Question

whats missing or wrong

app.js

var player = 'Jasmine'
var document.write('player');

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="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2017-08-21T23:15:13Z

August 21, 2017 11:15pm

When passing a variable to a function, you don't wrap it in quotes. Quotes are used to denote a String. Also, the keyword var is used to denote a variable. When using methods on the document object (or any object instance) you don't need to declare it as a variable. So your two problems are: First, your variable isn't being passed to document.write(), the String "player" is; and second, you've created a syntax error in your second line;

var player = 'Jasmine'
document.write('player'); //This will write "player" to the document
document.write(player); //This will write "Jasmine" to the document

Answer 2 · 2017-08-21T23:07:03Z

August 21, 2017 11:07pm

You're missing a semicolon! If you check the console it should have told you something like "SyntaxError: missing ; before statement" and on what line.

Also, when you called the variable player you actually just called a string. So get rid of your quotes. One last thing.. you don't put var in front of document.write. This would be like making document.write(Jasmine) a variable so that you could call it later. You don't need to do this though.

var player = "Jasmine";
document.write(player);

Answer 3 · 2017-08-22T09:59:43Z

August 22, 2017 9:59am

Both the above responses are correct^^^. :)

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