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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Write Another Program

Posted by MAURICIO LIBADISOS
MAURICIO LIBADISOS
259 Points

writing a function that opens alert

It asks me to write a function that will open an alert dialog with the message 'Warning!'. I don't know what I did wrong, it just gives me a message "Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer running"

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">
    alert('Warning!');
  </scripts>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Tom Gooding
Tom Gooding
16,735 Points
Tom Gooding
Tom Gooding
16,735 Points

'src="scripts.js"' is not required here.

MAURICIO LIBADISOS
MAURICIO LIBADISOS
259 Points

Thanks!

Jonathan Rhodes
Jonathan Rhodes
8,086 Points
Jonathan Rhodes
Jonathan Rhodes
8,086 Points

Your JavaScript is fine, but you are referencing scripts.js, which does not exist. The document expects code from the file in the src rather than what you have written in the tags.

MAURICIO LIBADISOS
MAURICIO LIBADISOS
259 Points

Thanks for the input