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JavaScript

Posted by Monica Anderson
Monica Anderson
3,621 Points

I am trying to do a conditional statement in JavaScript and it is not working.

Here is the code: var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?"); if (answer === "JavaScript"); { alert("You are correct"); } else { alert("JavaScript is the best language!") }

thanks so much Monika

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

:point_right: It looks like you have a stray semicolon (;) between the end of the if condition and the opening brace of the code block.

Monica Anderson
Monica Anderson
3,621 Points
Monica Anderson
Monica Anderson
3,621 Points

thanks!

Sam Okasha
Sam Okasha
10,343 Points
Sam Okasha
Sam Okasha
10,343 Points

A few things in your code to fix:

1) The semi-colon after the if statement closing parentheses. 2) You need to convert the answer in the prompt to uppercase in your if statement so no matter which lettercase is used, typing in 'javascript' will work.

Here's what finished code would look like:

var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?'); 
if (answer.toUpperCase() === 'JAVASCRIPT') { alert('You are correct'); } else 
{ alert('JavaScript is the best language!') }