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

Rakeeb Jalaldeen
Rakeeb Jalaldeen
3,847 Points
Posted by 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

eck
eck
43,038 Points
eck
eck
43,038 Points

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
Marco Cornejo
Marco Cornejo
3,411 Points

On script.js, instead of

document.write('Welcome administartor');

It should be:

alert("Welcome administrator");