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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Storing and Tracking Information with Variables The Variable Challenge Solution

Posted by gabe7houston
gabe7houston
1,791 Points

Need help understanding the usage of commas and quotation marks used here in the lesson

Here ------> "<h2>There once was a " + adjective; var verb = prompt('Please type a verb'); var noun = prompt('Please type a noun'); alert("All done. Ready for the message?"); sentence += ' programmer who wanted to use JavaScript to ' + verb; sentence += ' the ' + noun + ' <-----------Here document.write(sentence);

I understood you can interchange “ and ‘ (commas and quotation marks) as shown in the video lesson, right? Although to apply best practice you stay consistent, right? If so, I put quotation marks and it doesn’t run my code. What am I not getting about mixing commas and quotation marks used in the video versus me putting quotation marks at the end to be consistent?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Commas ( , ) cannot be substituted for quotes ( " ), but apostrophes can ( ' :point_left: also known as a "single quote").

And the code shown above is missing part of the last literal string. There should be something (perhaps just a period) and another apostrophe, and ideally a semicolon all before the "document.write" statement:

sentence += ' the ' + noun + '       // incomplete, unbalanced 's
sentence += ' the ' + noun + '.';    // fixed
gabe7houston
gabe7houston
1,791 Points

Thanks Steven for taking the time to respond and showing the results.