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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements A Basic If Statement

Rakeeb Jalaldeen
Rakeeb Jalaldeen
3,847 Points

Need help!

I'm stuck!

script.js
var isAdmin = true;
var isStudent = false;

if ( isAdmin = true ) {
document.write('Welcome administartor');
}
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>

3 Answers

Ah, you might have read over the question a bit too quickly :P

The challenge is asking that you trigger an alert, but you are instead writing content to the page.

Marco Cornejo
Marco Cornejo
3,411 Points

On script.js, instead of

document.write('Welcome administartor');

It should be:

alert("Welcome administrator");