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JavaScript

Posted by Thomas Buchstab
Thomas Buchstab
14,766 Points

Why is this not working?

i am doing another JavaScript Basics course and wondering why this is not working.

var userName = "Chris";

var score = 100;

score++;

score++;

score++;

var displayScore = "<h1>" userName + "'s score is " + score + " points</h1>";

document.write(displayScore);

if i remove the h1 tags it works. would be cool if somebody could explain me this. Thanks guys

2 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,604 Points

Hey there Lei,

you only made one tiny mistake. You have to add a "+" between your opening h1 tag and the userName variable to concatenate it correctly.

Like so:

var displayScore = "<h1>" + userName + "'s score is " + score + " points</h1>";

I hope that helps! :)

Thomas Buchstab
Thomas Buchstab
14,766 Points
Thomas Buchstab
Thomas Buchstab
14,766 Points

Thanks mate. I was going nuts here already. Cheers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,604 Points

No problem, glad I could help! :)