# Hello world: instead of my intended text

**URL:** https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/hello-world-instead-of-my-intended-text/23863
**Category:** Online experiments
**Created:** [July 3, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/hello-world-instead-of-my-intended-text/23863 "2021-07-03T18:25:45Z")
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### Author: ![wakecarter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/wakecarter/32/5753_2.png) [@wakecarter](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/wakecarter)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/hello-world-instead-of-my-intended-text/23863/2 "2021-07-04T08:05:11Z")

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I think that your issue is that elseif doesn’t work in JavaScript (and you’ve written it else if). If you had used Auto translation then you would have discovered if A: elseif B: becomes if A {} else {if B {}}

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