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

Posted by Jure Jakomin
Jure Jakomin
2,950 Points

How is this possibly not right???

var a = 10; var b = 20; var c = 30;

if ( a>b ) { window.alert("<p>a is greater than b</p>"); } else { window.alert("<p>a is not greater than b</p>"); }

How is this not right? Checked it 1000 times.

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

if ( a>b ) {
    window.alert("<p>a is greater than b</p>");
  } else {
    window.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

Dave Harker
PLUS
Dave Harker
Courses Plus Student 15,510 Points
Dave Harker
Dave Harker
Courses Plus Student 15,510 Points

Hi Jure,

I suspect it is simply because you 'enhanced' the response as:

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');
}

passes without issue.

Keep on coding :)

Dave.

Jure Jakomin
Jure Jakomin
2,950 Points
Jure Jakomin
Jure Jakomin
2,950 Points

Thank you Dave,

This worked :D