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Asked: 2026-05-23T12:59:53+00:00

Okay so i am using the following code. <html> <head> <link type=text/css rel=stylesheet href=html.css

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Okay so i am using the following code.

 <html>
    <head>
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="html.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function getName()
    {

    if(name)
    alert("you thought i forgot you" + name + "?");
    else
    name=prompt("what's your name","here");


    }
    </script>
    </head>

    <body onload="var name;">
    <p onclick="getName()"; >click here</p>
    </body>
    </html>

Now if on clicking the <p> text first time it prompts me, and if I click cancel without entering my name, and then again click the <p> text, it doesnt prompt me anything,

instead it shows the name to be filled as NULL. now in C,

char a=NULL;
if(a)

evaluates to false, doesn’t it happen in javascript?

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  1. Editorial Team

    One thing you might be running into: when you set the global name, you are actually setting window.name. window.name is a special property that actually persists even after refreshing the page.

    Try making a page with the script:

    alert(window.name);
name = 'hello';

    On the first run, it should alert “undefined”. If you refresh the page, though, you should see “hello”.

    You can avoid the problem by renaming name to something else.

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