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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Add an Else If Clause

Posted by Nikola Zagorac
Nikola Zagorac
446 Points

What am I doing wrong?

When i got into the test these is what it wrote:

var isAdmin = false; var isStudent = true;

if ( isAdmin ) { alert('Welcome administrator') }

It sed that I need to add and if else that checks if isStudent = true and then it types an alert. Heres what I typed:

if else (isStudent === true) { alert("Welcome student"); }

What did i do wrong?

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

if ( isAdmin ) {
    alert('Welcome administrator')
} if else ( isStudent === true ) {
  alert("Welcome student");
}
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>

2 Answers

Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points
Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points

Hi Nikola,

The error in your code is a rather minor one. You have "if else" instead of "else if".

Also, you can shorten your condition to just "isStudent" instead of "isStudent === true", as seen in the example with isAdmin.

Cosmin

Nikola Zagorac
Nikola Zagorac
446 Points
Nikola Zagorac
Nikola Zagorac
446 Points

Yea ive seen it :P I was wondering why it was a syntax error :P