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melissakeith
3,766 PointsWhy isn't this code working?
My code is right so why do I keep getting told I didn't all the document.write fucntion?
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
alert("Hello from treehouse");
document.write("<h1>Welcome to Javascript basics</h1>");
</script>
</html>
3 Answers
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsFirst, you need an opening <script> tag. The initial code provides it so it looks like you removed it by mistake. Second, there's a specific message it tells you to write, and you don't need the alert.
Simon Coates
28,694 Pointsit's particular. It wants document.write("Welcome to my site");
(update: As Seth Kroger notes, you seem to have accidentally removed your opening script tag. )
melissakeith
3,766 PointsThank you! I tried it every way I knew of and just forgot the script, second set of eyes is always helpful.
Simon Coates
28,694 PointsSimon Coates
28,694 PointsA lot of these challenges have a preview button. Outputting javascript to the page as text usually means that something is up with your opening script tag. Otherwise for debugging, you use the challenge to create a real page, or sometimes run snippets of javascript in your browser's developer tools console to verify correctness.