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Jonatan Luna
2,554 PointsI dont undestand
whats the pont?
var isAdmin = true;
var isStudent = false;
if (isAdmin = true){
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>
3 Answers
Jaroslaw Adamowicz
11,634 PointsI think that you forgot one equals sign. If statement should look like this:
if (isAdmin == true) { alert("Welcome administrator") }
You use one equals sign to assign a value, and two of them for comparison.
Steven Parker
216,014 PointsThe "point" of the challenges is just to practice what you're learning.
But if you're having trouble passing task 1, it looks like there's two issues:
- the conditional has an assignment operator ("
=") instead of a comparision ("==") - you still need a closing brace ("
}") to end your conditional code block.
philip busacco
5,188 PointsJaroslaw is correct. You assign variables with the single '=' operator, compare with the double '==' or strict triple '==='.