problem adding an else clause to an else if clause to check if multiple answers are false

Question

"Add a final else clause to this conditional statement so that if the isAdmin variable and isStudent variables are both false an alert opens with the message "Who are you?"

this is the challenge, i've written it several different ways and keep getting the condition wrong. Not sure why, please help?

script.js

var isAdmin = false;
var isStudent = false;

if ( isAdmin ) {
    alert('Welcome administrator');
} else if (isStudent) {
    alert('Welcome student');
}    else (false) {
            alert ('Who are you?');
}

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>

Answer 1 · 2018-10-31T16:29:54Z

October 31, 2018 4:29pm

Hi Charlie,

You are getting this error: SyntaxError: Parse error because else statements do not take a condition. The else branch is triggered if, and only if, all the preceding conditions are false, so there is no need to specify a condition.

Hope that helps,

Cheers

Alex

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problem adding an else clause to an else if clause to check if multiple answers are false

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Alex Koumparos

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