Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter - Step 35

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I can not finish this step because it writes that tests timed out - and random error results. I reloaded the page with complete kash clearing and it did not help

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<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <header class="main-text">
      <h1 class="title">Is this Spam?</h1>
      <p class="description">
        Enter a phrase to check if it would be marked as spam or not.
      </p>
    </header>

    <main>
      <label class="message-label" for="message-input">Message: </label>
      <textarea
        placeholder="Enter message here"
        value=""
        type="text"
        name="message"
        id="message-input"
        rows="10"
        cols="40"
      ></textarea>
      <button class="btn" id="check-message-btn" type="button">
        Check message
      </button>
      <p id="result"></p>
    </main>

    <footer class="footer">&copy; freeCodeCamp</footer>
    <script src="./script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
*,
*::before,
*::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

:root {
  --dark-grey: #1b1b32;
  --light-grey: #f5f6f7;
  --golden-yellow: #fecc4c;
  --yellow: #ffcc4c;
  --gold: #feac32;
  --orange: #ffac33;
  --dark-orange: #f89808;
}

body {
  background-color: var(--dark-grey);
  color: var(--light-grey);
}

body,
#message-input:placeholder-shown {
  text-align: center;
}

textarea {
  max-width: 90%;
}

.main-text {
  margin: 25px 0;
}

.title {
  font-size: 2.5rem;
}

.description {
  margin-top: 15px;
  font-size: 1.4rem;
}

.message-label {
  display: block;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  font-size: 1.5rem;
}

#message-input:placeholder-shown,
textarea {
  font-size: 1.1rem;
}

.btn {
  display: block;
  cursor: pointer;
  width: 200px;
  margin: 10px auto;
  color: var(--dark-grey);
  background-color: var(--gold);
  background-image: linear-gradient(var(--golden-yellow), var(--orange));
  border-color: var(--gold);
  border-width: 3px;
}

.btn:hover {
  background-image: linear-gradient(var(--yellow), var(--dark-orange));
}

#result {
  font-size: 2rem;
  margin: 20px 0;
}

.footer {
  margin-top: 10px;
}
/* file: script.js */
const messageInput = document.getElementById("message-input");
const result = document.getElementById("result");
const checkMessageButton = document.getElementById("check-message-btn");

const helpRegex = /please help|assist me/i;
const dollarRegex = /[0-9]+ (?:hundred|thousand|million|billion)? dollars/i;
const freeRegex = /(?:^|\s)fr[e3][e3] m[o0]n[e3]y(?:$|\s)/i;
const stockRegex = /(?:^|\s)[s5][t7][o0][c{[(]k [a@4]l[e3]r[t7](?:$|\s)/i;

// User Editable Region

const dearRegex = /(?:^|\s)d[e3][a@4]r fr[i1|][e3]nd(?:$|\s)/i;

// User Editable Region

const denyList = [helpRegex, dollarRegex, freeRegex, stockRegex, dearRegex];

const isSpam = (msg) => denyList.some((regex) => regex.test(msg));

checkMessageButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
  if (messageInput.value === "") {
    alert("Please enter a message.");
    return;
  }

  result.textContent = isSpam(messageInput.value)
    ? "Oh no! This looks like a spam message."
    : "This message does not seem to contain any spam.";
  messageInput.value = "";
});

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0

Challenge Information:

Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter - Step 35

Hi @suharnikov2022

Your code passes.
Reset the step and try again. If that doesn’t work, refresh the page, disable dark mode, disable ad blockers. Or, use another browser.
If the above steps do not work, you may need to restart the computer.

Happy coding

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