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

Posted by antonio tabarez
antonio tabarez
641 Points

conditional statements

why isnt this working

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;

if(a > b) {
  alert("a is greater than b");
} else {
  alert("a is not greater then 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>

2 Answers

scribbles
scribbles
21,173 Points
scribbles
scribbles
21,173 Points

Treehouse's code challenges are super specific. They wanted you to alert "a is not greater than b" you alerted "a is not greater then b"

Solution:

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"); // This is where the problem was
}
antonio tabarez
antonio tabarez
641 Points
antonio tabarez
antonio tabarez
641 Points

Thank you