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JavaScript JavaScript Arrays Multidimensional Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge – One Solution

Posted by Nicholas Smay
Nicholas Smay
14,768 Points

How do I use the '.toUppercase' or '.toLowercase' to stop the correct answer from being case sensitive?

if (response === answer.toLowerCase()) { score++; }

Above is the code I tried to run and I also tried the to.UpperCase but instead of making the response not case sensitive it just meant it had to be lower case or for to.UpperCase it had to be upper case

1 Answer

Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points
Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points

Hi Nicholas,

I suspect what you're trying to do here is do some light sanitization on user input so it more reliably matches the defined answer. For this, you want to use the .toLowerCase() method on the response variable (assuming that's storing what the user is submitting). Something like this:

var answer = 'orange';

if(response.toLowerCase() === answer) { 
 score++;
}

The above code will increment the score with values submitted like 'orange' or 'Orange' or 'ORANGE' and anything in between.

The goal here is to make it more likely that a user submits a matching answer that doesn't require precise capitalization.

Nicholas Smay
Nicholas Smay
14,768 Points

Thank you! Yes exactly, looks like I was just putting it the wrong place. Thanks for your help!