# Basic html help needed

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**Created:** [November 6, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-html-help-needed/206192 "2006-11-06T02:55:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![sunshine4986](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sunshine4986](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sunshine4986)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/basic-html-help-needed/206192/1 "2006-11-06T02:55:22Z")

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So I just started HTML…can anyone take a look and maybe see where I went wrong…its well THE SEARCH FOR NATIONALITY FUNCTION ISNT WORKING…

```auto

<html>
 <head>
 <title> Great Discoveries In Physics </title>
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
 
 function discoveryEntry(nm, yr, sci, n)
 { 
 this.name= nm
 this.year=yr
 this.scientist= sci
 this.nationality=n
 
 
 var discoveries = new Array(8) 
 discoveries[0] = new discoveryEntry("Theory of Gravity" ,"1687", "Isaac Newton" , "British")
 discoveries[1] = new discoveryEntry("Conservationof Energy" , "1850" , "William Thomson" , "British")
 discoveries[2] = new discoveryEntry("X Rays", "1895", "Wilhelm Roentgen" , "German")
 discoveries[3] = new discoveryEntry("Radioactivity", "1896" , "Henri Becquerel" , "French")
 discoveries[4] = new discoveryEntry("Electron", "1897", "J.J. Thomson", "British")
 discoveries[5] = new discoveryEntry("Radium" , "1898" , "Marie Curie", "French")
 discoveries[6] = new discoveryEntry("Theory of Relativity" , "1905", "Albert Einstein" , "Swiss")
 discoveries[7] = new discoveryEntry("Unit of Electric Charge", "1910" , "Robert Milkan" , "American")
 }
 
 
function searchForNationality(n) 
 
 { 
 
  searchResults=" "
 for ( ctr=0; ctr<8; ctr++)
 { if (discoveries[ctr].nationality=="n")
  {searchResults= searchResults + discoveries[ctr].scientist + "/r"}
 }
 
 /*
 if (discoveries[0].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = discoveries[0].scientist + "/r" }
 
        if (discoveries[1].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = searchResults + discoveries[1].scientist + "/r" }
 
 if (discoveries[2].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = searchResults + discoveries[2].scientist + "/r" }
 
 if (discoveries[3].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = searchResults + discoveries[3].scientist + "/r" }
  
 if (discoveries[4].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = searchResults + discoveries[4].scientist + "/r" }
 if (discoveries[5].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = searchResults + discoveries[5].scientist + "/r" }
 
 if (discoveries[6].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = searchResults + discoveries[6].scientist + "/r" }
 if (discoveries[7].nationality == "n") 
 { searchResults = searchResults + discoveries[7].scientist + "/r" }
 */

```
