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

Posted by Clayton Bowland
Clayton Bowland
2,874 Points

document.write

not sure about this code ?

app.js 
var answer = prompt ('What is the best programming language?');
if (answer === 'JavaScript') {
   alert ("You are correct")
} else {
  document.write ("<p> JavaScript is the best language! </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="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Greg Stephen
Greg Stephen
11,600 Points
Greg Stephen
Greg Stephen
11,600 Points

What are you not sure about?

Clayton Bowland
Clayton Bowland
2,874 Points

its saying"bummer syntax error".

Chau Mai
Chau Mai
2,338 Points
Chau Mai
Chau Mai
2,338 Points

It asks for an alert() message after the 'else condition', instead of a document.write() message. Remember to close the curly bracket when you have an open one.