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Ryan Deiss
1,120 PointsIt keeps saying "Parse Error" but i dont know what im doing wrong
Please help me
var isAdmin = false;
var isStudent = true;
if ( isAdmin ) {
alert('Welcome administrator');
} else (isStudent = true); {
alert('Welcome Student');
{
<!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

Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,623 PointsHi Ryan,
You're on the right track, but there are a few issues.
- The challenge is looking for and
else if
clause, but you are using only anelse
clause. - There cannot be a semicolon after the conditional in the
else if
. - There is an opening curly brace at the end of the
else if
instead of a closing curly brace.
Just fix up those 3 things and the code will pass.
Good work. :)

Alexander Davison
65,454 PointsUse ==
instead of =
.

Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,107 PointsYou need an if after else; no semi-colon after the conditional checking if isStudent; just use isStudent without a comparison operator (isStudent is already a boolean value); and your last curly brace should be reversed.