Javascript: Why can't I get an alert box to work?

Question

I'm a novice at this. Bear with me.

This is what I have written out so far in Javascript:


I can't read the heading in the book because the alert box was in the way.

Answer 1

Below my makeshift line is what should work. There are a few problems with your code:



1. Don't use ; instead use CSS included in tags using the style="" attribute.

2. or any variant of it should not be placed in the section. Nor should
. The only tags you really should be using inside are















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I added type="text/javascript" in the

Answer 2

change:

window.alert ("Woohoo. It works...not. Why the hell won't this work!?")



to:



alert ("Woohoo. It works...not. Why the hell won't this work!?");



also make sure to add the script type to your scrip.