Don't Ya Just Hate This?

Ben Horne · October 18th, 2004, 03:55 PM

This is the first day of my Javascript: An Introduction class and I am already having problems with a bit of Javascript code on a web page.

This is the code.

Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Hide the script from older browsers --
  today = new Date()
if ((today.getHours() >=4) && (today.getHours() <=12)){
  document.write("Good Morning.  Have a rush job for the afternoon? We can handle it!")
}
if ((today.getHours() >12) && (today.getHours() <=18)){
  document.write("Good afternoon.  We can get that print job ready by tomorrow morning.")
}
if ((today.getHours() >18) && (today.getHours() <=23)){
  document.write("Good evening.  We will be here all night if you need us!")
if ((today.getHours() >=0) && (today.getHours() <4)){
  document.write("Yes, we are working at this hour!")
}
// -- End hiding here -->
</SCRIPT>

The message I get is telling me that there is an error on line 27 which I have highlighted in red for easier noticing

Ben Horne
LDS Test And Measurement, Inc

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Snib · October 18th, 2004, 08:23 PM

Prepare to smack yourself...

You're missing a closing brace after the document.write() statement after the third if-else statement!

  today = new Date()
if ((today.getHours() >=4) && (today.getHours() <=12)){
  document.write("Good Morning. Have a rush job for the afternoon? We can handle it!")
}
if ((today.getHours() >12) && (today.getHours() <=18)){
  document.write("Good afternoon. We can get that print job ready by tomorrow morning.")
}
if ((today.getHours() >18) && (today.getHours() <=23)){
  document.write("Good evening. We will be here all night if you need us!")
} // <--- here it is
if ((today.getHours() >=0) && (today.getHours() <4)){
  document.write("Yes, we are working at this hour!")
}

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Ben Horne · October 18th, 2004, 09:41 PM

That's funny. I was entering it exactly like my textbook for the Introduction To Javascript course had it. However, it's been my experience that textbooks can be inaccurate. I guess this is another time that I've dealt with this.

Anyways, thanks for pointing this out, Snib.

BTW, I gotta change my signature a bit

Ben Horne
LDS Test And Measurement, Inc

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http://www.geocities.com/valerian5200/index.html

"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who claim to be Flash junkies and those who actually are Flash junkies"

Ben Horne · October 18th, 2004, 09:46 PM

A word of wisdom: Never fully trust any computer textbook. Most often, they can be wrong about any particular thing.

Ben Horne

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