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In the following code document.write() function is not able to take string as its argument, 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Web Page</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

<button type="button" onclick="document.write(5 + 6)">Try it</button>

</body>
</html>

The problem seems to be that there are already quotations around "document.write(5 + 6)".

So how do I add a usual text string to it?

user31782
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Try with single quotes for string as below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Web Page</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

<button type="button" onclick="document.write('Hello world')">Try it</button>

</body>
</html>
Mani
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You may better use document.getElementById, because document.write is bad practice. 

<h1>My First Web Page</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
<p id="result"></p>
<button onclick="document.getElementById('result').innerHTML=5 + 6">Click Me!</button>
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Nina Scholz
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you can do this - let the string be in single quotes.

onclick="document.write('5 + 6')"

Note: You can interchnage single and double quotes. This also works

onclick='document.write("5 + 6")'

Lingaraju E V
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Try this.. 

<h1>My First Web Page</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

<button type="button" onclick='document.write(5 + 6)'>Try it</button>

</body>
</html>
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