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

Posted by Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points

booleans

Im stuck on the boolean objective :(

script.js 
if ( ) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}
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="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

andi mitre
STAFF
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher
andi mitre
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Louis, since true is a boolean itself, you can add true inside the if statement like so:

if ( true) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}

Cheers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

A good way to do this exercise and writing all conditional statements is to say the conditional statement out loud. ie. if this is true then do this, if not true then do something else. so in that sentence you have your conditional statement and if else clauses. so in your case your code should look like this:

if (true) {                        //if this is true
    alert('This is true');    //then do this code 
} else {                         //if not true, then do something else 
    alert('This is false');   //something else
}

I hope this helps.