React to the User

Let’s make JavaScript feel like a real conversation. In this lesson, you’ll ask the user something using prompt(), and use what they say to update your page or show a message.

Goal

You will learn to:

• Get user input with prompt().

• Display the input in an alert or on the page.

• Personalize your page using what the user said.

So far, you have learned to show just the name by itself. But what if you want to say something like this: “Nice to meet you, Ava!?”

Let’s learn how to build full messages by joining strings together. Recall that a string is just text inside quotes, like: