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

Posted by hansolna
hansolna
2,091 Points

How should I add `true` inside the parentheses of the conditional statement?

Please let me know what is wrong in the below script.js

var correctGuess = false; var guess = prompt('what is my favorite color'); if (guess === 'Blue') {correctGuess = true}; if (correctGuess === true ) { alert('This is true'); } else { alert('This is false'); }

script.js 
var correctGuess = false;
var guess = prompt('what is my favorite color');
if (guess === 'Blue') {correctGuess = true}
if (correctGuess === true) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Adam Beer
Adam Beer
11,314 Points
Adam Beer
Adam Beer
11,314 Points

You made the solution too complicated. Just write one boolean value inside the if () statement

Challenge Task 1 of 1

The next few challenges are going to be using boolean logic and will be building in complexity.

Place a Boolean value between the parenthesis for the condition in this conditional statement. Use the boolean value that will result in the message "This is true" appearing in an alert box.

if ( true) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}