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

javascript basics

why is this not working Bummer: I don't see the message 'a is NOT greater than b'. Are you sure you wrote the conditiona

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

The message needs to be exactly as specified. Remove the <p> tags and period and you should be good.

Thank you so much, Kris!