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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Introducing Conditional Statements

Posted by Andy Yee
Andy Yee
2,153 Points

Add an else clause to complete the conditional statement. Inside the else clause add another alert that says "JavaScript

var answer prompt('what is the best programming language?'); alert ("You are correct"); if (answer === 'JavaScript') { (" That's right!"); } else { (" That's wrong!"); } else { alert("JavaScript is not the best language!"); (" That's true!"); }

app.js 
var answer 
prompt('what is the best programming language?');
alert ("You are correct");
if (answer === 'JavaScript') {
  (" That's right!");
} else {
  (" That's wrong!");
} else {
alert("JavaScript is not the best language!");
   (" That's wrong!");
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points
Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points

Only do what the instructions ask and nothing else. The first task's instructions are a bit vague though, but it is intended that you assing the prompt to answer

var answer 
prompt('what is the best programming language?'); //you should assing this to answer
alert ("You are correct"); //now this will show the alert anyway after prompt has closed. Delete this row.
if (answer === 'JavaScript') {
  (" That's right!"); //as per instructions, you should say 'You are correct'
} else {
  (" That's wrong!"); //here you should say "JavaScript is the best language!"
} else { //you cannot have two times else, delete this block
alert("JavaScript is not the best language!"); 
   (" That's wrong!");
}
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points

I see a few issues:

  • you must assign ("=") the result of calling "prompt" to the "answer" variable to test it later
  • putting parentheses around a string doesn't do anything by itself, did you mean to call "alert"?
  • you can only have one "else" in an "if ... else" sequence
  • some of these strings are not in the instructions