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Create a Smart Button

Explore how to create a smart button that changes its responses based on user clicks using if/else logic and boolean variables. Understand how to add memory to your JavaScript code, enabling it to behave differently on each interaction. Also, learn to reset the button's state to start over, gaining practical experience with dynamic event handling and program logic.

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Now that your code can remember things and make decisions, let’s bring it all together! You’ll build a button that changes how it behaves—depending on what the user has already done.

Goal

You will learn to:

  • Use if/else inside an event listener.

  • Respond differently depending on a value.

  • Create dynamic behavior on click.

HTML setup

Let’s start with a simple button and a space to show the message:

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