Selecting from Many Options with Switch Statements

If you have many options to choose from, use a switch statement. A switch statement tests a value and can have many case statements which define various possible values. Statements are executed from the first matched case value until a break is encountered.

Here is a pseudocode example:

switch(num) {
  case value1:
    statement1;
    break;
  case value2:
    statement2;
    break;
...
  case valueN:
    statementN;
    break;
}
case values are tested with strict equality (===). The break tells JavaScript to stop executing statements. If the break is omitted, the next statement will be executed.


Write a switch statement which tests val and sets answer for the following conditions:
1 - "alpha"
2 - "beta"
3 - "gamma"
4 - "delta"

#FreeCodeCamp Change Text with Click Events

#FreeCodeCamp Change Text with Click Events

When our click event happens, we can use jQuery to update an HTML element.

Let's make it so that when a user clicks the "Get Message" button, we change the text of the element with the class message to say "Here is the message".

We can do this by adding the following code within our click event:

$(".message").html("Here is the message");