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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Add an 'else if' Clause

clifford dsouza
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Add an else if clause that tests if the isStudent variable is true. If it's true, set the value of the message variable

Add an else if clause that tests if the isStudent variable is true. If it's true, set the value of the message variable

script.js 
const isAdmin = false;
const isStudent = true;
let message;

if ( isStudent ) {
  message = "Welcome student";

}
else if  {isAdmin)   {
//message = "false';
}

2 Answers

Brennen Bactista
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if (isAdmin) {
   message = 'Welcome admin';
} else if (isStudent) {
   message = 'Welcome student';
}

First of all, make sure your syntax is correct. It seems that you did a typo and got your ( with a {. Also the "isAdmin" and "isStudent" variables are already set to booleans as shown in your first two lines, so you don't have to type "false" anywhere.

Darko Tomasir
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Darko Tomasir
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Hi Brennen, My code is the same as yours but it's not working. (see below). const isAdmin = false; const isStudent = true; let message = true;

if ( isAdmin ) { message = 'Welcome admin'; } else if ( isStudent) { message = 'Welcome student'; } VM98:1 Uncaught SyntaxError: Identifier 'isAdmin' has already been declared