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

Tijl Declerck
Tijl Declerck
1,211 Points
Posted by Tijl Declerck
Tijl Declerck
1,211 Points

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. suddenly the first part of my exercise doesn't work anymore

please help.

app.js 
var answer=prompt("What is the best programming language?");

if(answer ==="JavaScript") { 
  alert("You are correct");
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="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Philip Gales
Philip Gales
15,193 Points
Philip Gales
Philip Gales
15,193 Points

You forgot to close your curly braces.

var answer=prompt("What is the best programming language?");

if(answer ==="JavaScript") { 
  alert("You are correct"); 
}