Problem in Assessment: Silly Story Generator

[Eikansh Gupta]

Hi,

I am having problem running Silly Story
Generator(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/First_steps/Silly_story_generator#Starting_point).
I always get error "[object HTMLParagraphElement]". I have even tried
to match my js code with correct code but nothing is working out.
Link to code http://ideone.com/FxNExJ

Thanks in advance.

[Chris Mills]

Hi there!

I tested your code, and it was exactly right except for one tiny mistake; the related instruction in the assessment text is as follows:

"Finally, in the second-to-last line of the function, make the textContent property of the story variable (which references the paragraph) equal to newStory.”

In your code, you had

story.textContent = story

Which is setting the textContent of the paragraph to be equal to itself, hence it coming up with an [object HTMLParagraphElement] reference - it is an object, not some text.

To fix it, I changed the line to

story.textContent = newStory

which sets the textContent equal to the newStory text string, containing our modified silly story.

Best regards,

Chris Mills
Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
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