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

Posted by Taha Siddiqui
Taha Siddiqui
Courses Plus Student 868 Points

Can someone answer what is wrong in this question.

when i submitted this, it asked me "Did you put true in the conditional statement? I did put true in the conditional statement and have no idea why there is an error. Thanks to anyone who can help. Taha

script.js 
var correctGuess = false
var myAge = 13
var age = prompt("What is my age");
if (parseInt(age) === myAge);{
    correctGuess = true;
}
if (correctGuess === true ) {
    alert("This is true");
} else {
    alert("This is False");
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Konrad Traczyk
Konrad Traczyk
22,287 Points
Konrad Traczyk
Konrad Traczyk
22,287 Points

Hello Taha,

Your code works great, unfortunatly this is not what challange asks you to do. What you have to do is just place "true" between brackets in if statement.

Hope it helps, Goodluck.