Boolean value to the condition in this conditional statement

Rachel,

This challenge is telling you to put something in the if statement that will result in it evaluating to its true state, which will output the sentence "This is true" in an alert box. All you need to do is create something that is true and pass it to the statement.

Currently, you have two things incorrect in your code.

1) You need to remove the parenthesis from the variable 'x' in your if statement and remove the single quotes from the value 'true':

You have:

if((x) === 'true') {
}

You need:

if(x === true) {
}

Putting parenthesis around your variable 'x' is just incorrect, but the single quotes around the value 'true' is just not matching up with what you're setting 'x' equal to. If you have quotes (whether single or double) around a value, you are declaring to JavaScript that it is a string. You are not setting the value of 'x' equal to a string, you are currently setting it equal to the boolean value of false. If you had set it to "false" (with quotation marks), then you would be setting it to a string, and thus would check it against a string value in your conditional. In this case, you're setting it to a boolean, so you want to check it against a boolean.

2) You're not evaluating a statement that is true. You currently have the value of 'x' set to false, and you're checking if the value is true in your if statement. Since it is NOT true, this if statement would evaluate to false, thus displaying an alert box with "This is false" in it.

Fix those errors and you're good to go!

Erik

Rachel,

Try what Tommy has suggested and just put true into the conditional, like follows:

if(true) {
...
} else {
...
}

Sometimes these challenges can be suuuuper picky in what they're looking for.

Additionally, I don't believe the preview will do anything for this challenge. Just submit the code and see what happens!

Erik

Thanks for the help Erik and Tommy! Unfortunately, I am still not understanding what I am doing wrong here...

So I ditched the extra parenthesis, and played around with making a few changes. No matter what I do when I preview my file it does nothing.

var x = 6; var y = 9; if (x < y === true) { alert('This is true'); } else { alert('This is false'); }

I also tried this:

var today = 'Friday'; if (today === 'Friday') { alert('This is true'); } else { alert('This is false'); }

Any additional advice?

Thank you very much, that did work. I appreciate you walking me through the problem as well though.

This exercise is written in a way that students (complete beginners) fail to understand. I have gotten this feeling throughout the entire course. I think the teacher forgets that we are complete beginners. Anyway, I'm sure that the course can be made more "learning friendly".