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

Anton Sigurdsson
Anton Sigurdsson
1,357 Points
Posted by Anton Sigurdsson
Anton Sigurdsson
1,357 Points

What am I doing wrong?

I am at this between lessons test:

"Add a conditional statement that tests if the value in the variable a is greater than the value in variable b. If it is, pop up an alert with the message 'a is greater than b'; also add an else clause that pops up the message 'a is not greater than b'."

I get an error message saying:

"Bummer: I don't see the message 'a is NOT greater than b'. Are you sure you wrote the conditional statement correctly?"

What am I doing wrong?

here is my code:

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

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if ( a > b ) {
window.alert("<p>a is greater than b</p>");
} else {
window.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

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

Remove your paragraph tags. The checker is usually very specific when it comes to text.

Anton Sigurdsson
Anton Sigurdsson
1,357 Points
Anton Sigurdsson
Anton Sigurdsson
1,357 Points

Thank you for the quick reply, tried it and it worked :)

Thank you so much!