Learn Basic JavaScript by Building a Role Playing Game - Step 58

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

It’s displaying and behaving correctly in the preview, but it’s not accepting my code. I’ve tried giving the text property to locations outside the curly braces, as a separate element in the array locations as well, with/without the parentheses after goTown, without the goTown function, with the text property as a string, and I’ve checked my capitals. I’m not sure what else I can do

Your code so far

/* User Editable Region */

const locations = [
    {
        name: "town square",
        "button text": ["Go to store", "Go to cave", "Fight dragon"],
        "button functions": [goStore, goCave, fightDragon],
        text: goTown().innerText 
    }
];

/* User Editable Region */
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oh, and with “goTown().text.innerText” with/without the goTown in there

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the problem lies in your text property the goTown variable is meant to be the value of the text property and don’t forget to use the ‘=’ operator

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innerText is meant to be used to call the text property in the text not on the value goTown

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I appreciate your help.

So it says to give text the value from the goTown function; i’ve changed the colon to an equals, but not sure to assign the value without calling it from the function? does it still go in the ‘location’ array?

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Please post your updated code

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I know this isn’t correct, but it’s the base of what I’ve been changing little things to see if that works.

const locations = [
    {
        
        name: "town square",
        "button text": ["Go to store", "Go to cave", "Fight dragon"],
        "button functions": [goStore, goCave, fightDragon]
        text = goTown().text.innerText;     
    }

];
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This line can’t go inside the definition of your array.

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it doesn’t want to take it outside the array either. either outside the braces or the brackets. The console says the locations property should have a text value, and that value should be the string " You are in the town square…" which does come up in the preview.

const locations = [
    text = goTown().text.innerText,
    {
        name: "town square",
        "button text": ["Go to store", "Go to cave", "Fight dragon"],
        "button functions": [goStore, goCave, fightDragon]
    }
];

also tried

const locations = [

    {
        name: "town square",
        "button text": ["Go to store", "Go to cave", "Fight dragon"],
        "button functions": [goStore, goCave, fightDragon]
    }
], text = goTown().text.innerText;

for some reason

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It’s still inside of the array. It must be completely outside of the [ and ]

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it is on the second set of code i put in. i also tried it outside the braces but ahead of them

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In the second code you put that line next to the ]

Put it on its own line

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text.innerText should assign goTown variable you don’t need to add text.innerText to your variable it’s not necessary

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tried with a comma and a semi colon after the ]. I’m also getting timed out on my replies, if it seems like i’m taking a while. I appreciate your patience and working me through this.

What exactly is it trying to achieve? why doesn’t take the text property like it takes the other properties?

const locations = 
 [
    {
        name: "town square",
        "button text": ["Go to store", "Go to cave", "Fight dragon"],
        "button functions": [goStore, goCave, fightDragon]
    }
], 
text = goTown().text.innerText;
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It is much simpler.

It wants you to add a text property to the object inside the location array, and use the same string for the value as the one found in goTown on the right-hand side of the text.innerText. It just wants you to duplicate the same string value. There is nothing dynamic or evaluated going on just a hard-coded string in two places.

const arr = [
  {
    prop: "Some shared string"
  }
]

function fn() {
  DOMNode.property = "Some shared string"
}
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You don’t want the comma. Swap it for a semicolon.

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wow thank you that was it. The instruction “Give this property the final text.innerText value from the goTown function.” really made me think i had to use the “text.innerText” ability.

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I agree, it is worded confusingly and we should try and clarify it.

Issue

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can you post the updated code, please?

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This does not look clean but it answers the question
text: “You are in the town square. You see a sign that says "Store".”