Hi I have only been playing with HTML/JS for a couple of days. Please can someone tell me why the following statements do not work. Thanks HTML: <html> <head> <title>My Website Page 2</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function sendalert(x) if (x=="Dave") { document.write("Yourname is Dave"); } else { document.write("You're not Dave"); } </script> </head> <body> <form> <input type=text name="text" value="NAME"> <input type=button value="click Me" name="send" onclick="sendalert(form.text.value)"> </form> </body> </html>
Haha :rofl: Your func def is not wrapped inside {}. The working code (tested) is : HTML: <html> <head> <title>My Website Page 2</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function sendalert(x) { if (x=="Dave") document.write("Yourname is Dave"); else document.write("You're not Dave"); } </script> </head> <body> <form> <input type=text name="text" value="NAME"> <input type=button value="click Me" name="send" onclick="sendalert(form.text.value)"> </form> </body> </html> Just ignore the hyperlinks, they are automatically added for known tags. PS : Take care of the following points : (1) Please post your code inside Code: ... [/ code][/B] (no space between / and code, i gave it to stop recognizing it as code-block) (2) Please indent your code properly, so that it would be more readable and can be debugged easily. I think, if you had indented your code, you would have easily found the mistake.
Many thanks for your response. However I am a little confused now. I have been using the w3schools site to learn and that describes the IF THEN in the way I have coded it. Is the tutorial on their site wrong?
You need to close the actions of the IF statement in {}, if they contain more than one instructions. This is perfectly fine : Code: if (x=="Dave") document.write("Yourname is Dave"); But, this : Code: if (x=="Dave") document.write("Yourname is Dave"); document.write("Welcome Dave !"); will not function as expected from the indentation of the code. It will function similar to : Code: if (x=="Dave") document.write("Yourname is Dave"); document.write("Welcome Dave !"); So, ifor the correct functioning, you must close both statements within {}. Code: if (x=="Dave") { document.write("Yourname is Dave"); document.write("Welcome Dave !"); } I hope, you got it. :smile:
