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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Introducing JavaScript Your First JavaScript Program

Posted by Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points

What is the answer? Why doesn't Treehouse help the student out and show the answer? They will always be stuck.

Add what details? I need help with this!!!!!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>

<script>
document.write <h1>"Welcome to my site"</h1>;

</script>

</html>

7 Answers

james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points
james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

compare what you have typed with what is shown at the 2:29 mark in the video preceding this challenge.

Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points
Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points

Still didn't work! I copied the format just like the video.

james south
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james south
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james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

make your call to document.write like in the video and it will pass. i just did it.

Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it.

Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points
Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points

I finally figured it out: document.write("<h1>Welcome to my site</h1>"). I had to put the quotation marks outside the h1 tags. I need a javascript syntax cheatsheet.

Elizabeth Martinsen
Elizabeth Martinsen
8,393 Points
Elizabeth Martinsen
Elizabeth Martinsen
8,393 Points

Remember, whenever you use a method, you usually want to add (), then put your information in between. Try looking at your document.write method.

Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points

Thank you.

Justin Warger
Justin Warger
5,965 Points
Justin Warger
Justin Warger
5,965 Points

I was asking myself this same question too. After using Treehouse for awhile now I realized it is a great learning opportunity. They don't give you the answer so you have to learn how to use the resources available to you to find the answer. In a real world scenario, all you have is the resources you understand how to use to solve your problem.

Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points
Gil Yarbrough
Gil Yarbrough
602 Points

Yes, I realize the intent on not giving the answer; however when a student is simply "CLUELESS", what is their recourse for moving forward? Some students like myself have a very bad retention span and rely on better hints that will prompt them to the right answer.