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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine Strings and Template Literals Review

Joseph Harlow
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Joseph Harlow
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Joseph Harlow
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Complete the code below to create a template literal: const headline = '<h1>A Literal Headline</h1>';

Please help. Can't seem to get this one.

Tim Oltman
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Tim Oltman
Tim Oltman
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Template literals are created only with the "tick" or "prime" character that is located to the left of the number 1 on your keyboard (above tab). This is different than the single quote character you are using in your question above.

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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As Tim observed, template literals are enclosed in accents ("backticks") instead of apostrophes:

` :point_left: these, not these :point_right: '

But it might be worth pointing out that a template literal is not needed in this example, as no tag, interpolation tokens or newlines exist here. A plain string would do just as well here in practical code (and would be more "best practice").