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Asked: 2026-05-27T19:30:34+00:00

I’m a beginner with Javascript and can’t get the code below to work. When

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I’m a beginner with Javascript and can’t get the code below to work. When I click the button, nothing happens. Could someone point out what I did wrong? Thanks!

<html>
<head>
<title>Sarah's Puppy Game</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="input">
        <input id="puppyNumber" size=30>
        <button onClick="doLoop()"> Get your puppies </button>
    </div>
    <script type="text/html">
        function doLoop() {
        var number = document.getElementById('puppyNumber').value;
            var puppy = [];
            while (var i = 0; i < parseInt(number); i++) {
                puppy = puppy.push('puppy<br>');
            }
            alert(puppy);


        }
    </script>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Instead of…

    puppy = puppy.push('puppy<br>');

    …just say…

    puppy.push('puppy<br>');

    push returns the element that was pushed, not the array to which it was pushed.

    Your code will cause the variable puppy to be set to the string "puppy<br>". Then you’ll try to do "puppy<br>".push("puppy<br>"), which is obviously invalid.

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