Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter - Step 5

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confused ive with just = and += and it wont pass

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/* file: script.js */
const messageInput = document.getElementById("message-input");
const result = document.getElementById("result");
const checkMessageButton = document.getElementById("check-message-btn");

const isSpam = (msg) => false;


// User Editable Region

checkMessageButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
  if (messageInput.value === "") {
    alert("Please enter a message.");
    return;
  }
 return isSpam(messageInput.value)? result.textContent += 'Oh no! This looks like a spam message.': result.textContent = 'This message does not seem to contain any spam.';

});

// User Editable Region

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Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter - Step 5

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Hi @GavinEscanilla

You should use the assignment operator to set the textContent property of the result element.

Looks like you need to assign the expression to the outcome of the ternary operator.
Happy coding

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