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peterson st gourdain
931 PointsI can't see my mistake
shine some clarification on this for me
var isAdmin = true;
var isStudent = false;
if (isAdmin is true) {
} else if (alert("Welcome administrator")); {
}
<!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
Steven Parker
229,732 PointsHere's a few hints:
- the word "is" is not a JavaScript operator
- the parentheses following an "if" should contain a comparison expression
- conditional code goes between the braces that come after the conditional expression
- there should not be a semicolon between an "if" condition and the brace of the code block
Paolo Scamardella
24,828 PointsI'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish here, but your comparison is wrong. You need to use === (triple equals) to compare values. Second, JavaScript's alert method does not return a boolean but returns no value, so it does not make sense to call the method inside else if parentheses.
By judging your code, maybe you want to do this?
var isAdmin = true;
var isStudent = false;
if (isAdmin === true) { // or just if(isAdmin)
alert("Welcome administrator")
} else {
// code for not an admin
}
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
peterson st gourdain
931 Pointspeterson st gourdain
931 Pointsstill not getting it