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Emily Coleman
7,137 PointsHelp with conditional statement task
Add a conditional statement that tests if the value in the variable a is greater than the value in variable b. If it is, pop up an alert with the message 'a is greater than b'; also add an else clause that pops up the message 'a is not greater than b'.
What is wrong with my code? It looks right to me...
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.");
}
<!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
philippulbrich
11,975 PointsHi Emily,
you did everything right. Just delete the dots at the end of your alert strings. Than it should work.
Best regards - Phil
Emily Coleman
7,137 PointsIt worked, thank you! I think I ran into that before. Can you never create an alert message than ends in a period? I thought whatever was contained between the quotes would be treated as meaningless text...
philippulbrich
11,975 PointsYeah, you're right about that. In principle you can write the dot in the alert message but in this task you were asked for the string without the dot. So it didn't work in this case but basically you're right!
Emily Coleman
7,137 Pointsohhhh I see. Thank you!!
Emily Coleman
7,137 PointsEmily Coleman
7,137 PointsThe "Bummer" message I'm getting is saying "I don't see the message 'a is NOT greater than b.' Are you sure you wrote the conditional statement correctly?" But at the exact same moment, I am getting a pop up alert containing 'a is not greater than b.' So it is clearly working...