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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Using Comparison Operators

Posted by starr13
starr13
2,494 Points

Challenge Task 1 of 1 JavaScript Basics: Conditional statements

Am I suppose to use symbols verse the words 'greater than' or 'less than'? I just not having any luck getting this to work. Please help me. Thanks!

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
    if a {
    console.log('a is greater than b)=alert('a is greater than b'))
       }else { alert('a is not greater than b')}
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>

3 Answers

Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
11,927 Points
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
11,927 Points

Here you go... 

if( a > b){
alert('a is greater than b');
} else {
alert( 'a is not greater than b');
};
starr13
starr13
2,494 Points

Robert,

Thanks for your help.

Julia

Andrew Buckner
Andrew Buckner
2,506 Points
Andrew Buckner
Andrew Buckner
2,506 Points

I was a little confused on why we did not have to use the curly brackets like normal if & else statements?

Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points
Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points

Hello there, @JuliaCook! I think you didn't really get the question. The challenge says if a is greater than b, we need to alert some statement, else we need to alert some other statement. Here is how your statement should look like:

var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;

if (a > b) alert('a is greater than b')
else alert('a is not greater than b')

I hope it helped!

~ Ari

starr13
starr13
2,494 Points

Thanks, Ari!!!!

Julia