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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Add an Else If Clause

Error: I don't see the message 'Welcome student' in the alert

This is my code...

var isAdmin = true; var isStudent = false;

if ( isAdmin === true ) { alert('Welcome administrator'); } else if ( isStudent === true ) { alert('Welcome student'); }

script.js
var isAdmin = true;
var isStudent = false;

if ( isAdmin === true ) {
    alert('Welcome administrator');
} else if ( isStudent === true ) {
    alert('Welcome student');
}
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>

Take out the "if" in the "else if" statement. There is no need for it and may be causing the issue.

Yes I can refactor that way, but my code is technically valid JS ... I was just wondering why it spit out an error. It was a bug I restarted and this code worked. I have experience with JS but wanted to keep to what was being taught and not jump ahead eg. refactor but yes something like ...

if ( isAdmin ) { alert('Welcome administrator'); } else { alert('Welcome student'); }

would also work

3 Answers

looks like it is <script src="script.js"></script> ... this is a code challenge though and usually treehouse has it already plugged up I never touch the index on these well so far but I double checked and looks like the code challenge before this. I tested this code on browser console also and it works

it was def a bug ... i restarted the challenge from the start and it worked now

David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points

Happy days... kind of ha ha

Glad you got it sorted 👍🏻

yes ...thanks for replying

David Perkins
David Perkins
9,607 Points

Everything checks out from what i can see... are you sure that the script.js file is correctly linked in relation to the index.html file?