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

Posted by Charles Jones
Charles Jones
Courses Plus Student 646 Points

What have I done wrong?

Is my conditional statement correct?

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if ( a > b ) { alert ( ' a is greater than b');  }
else { alert (' a is not greater than b'); }
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>
Zack Lee
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 Points
Zack Lee
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 Points

what are you trying to achieve? do you get an error? do you not recieve an alert?

James Tew
James Tew
2,774 Points
James Tew
James Tew
2,774 Points

Your conditional statement will return the else alert as 'a' is not greater than 'b'.

If you want it to return the if statement, you'll need to amend your code to this:

var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if ( a < b ) { alert ( ' a is greater than b');  }
else { alert (' a is not greater than b'); }

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,783 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,783 Points

The challenges are very picky about output strings. The issue is the space inside the string before the letter "a". Remove that from both strings and you will pass the challenge.

The space between the function name and the parenthesis is not an issue, though it would be a "best practice" to not have one there either.

Charles Jones
Charles Jones
Courses Plus Student 646 Points

Thank you. that was the problem.

Danielle Schorfheide
Danielle Schorfheide
2,737 Points
Danielle Schorfheide
Danielle Schorfheide
2,737 Points

I just did this one myself. The only potential issue I can see is the space between "alert" and the opening parentheses. I'm not certain if that is proper syntax. Maybe it is causing an error?

Zack Lee
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 Points
Zack Lee
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 Points

white space should have no effect on the syntax. I just ran the code myself and it alerted me that "a was less than b" which is correct. I'm not sure what the issue is because it works fine for me.