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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Using Comparison Operators

Posted by Max Gabriel
Max Gabriel
11,213 Points

I'm not seeing the parsing error I made. Can you help me please?

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script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if (  a >  b) {
 alert('a is greater than b');   
}
else ( a <  b) {
    alert('a is not greater than b');
}
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="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Tabatha Trahan
Tabatha Trahan
21,422 Points
Tabatha Trahan
Tabatha Trahan
21,422 Points

The else statement should be an else if when you want to check another condition. Use else when you want to execute a default statement when none of the other conditions have been met. See if that fixes the issue.