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

Posted by Bill Ertle
Bill Ertle
9,286 Points

conditional statement in JavaScript

workspace is telling me that the code i've written in the script.js is not correct.

can someone please tell me what is wrong?

thank you

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if ( a > b) {
  alert("<p>a is greater than b</p>");
} else {
  alert("<p>a is not greater than b</p>");
}
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

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

You don't need to put the p tags on the alert message, remove all of 'em and your code should pass.

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");
}
Bill Ertle
Bill Ertle
9,286 Points
Bill Ertle
Bill Ertle
9,286 Points

it worked...thanks so much, william!