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

Aleksandra Laska
Aleksandra Laska
5,343 Points

What is wrong ?

script.js
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;

if (a>b) { 
    alert('a is greater than b');
    } 
else (a<b) {
      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>

2 Answers

An else statement has no condition. It is what executes if all previous conditions are false.

Luke Buin
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Luke Buin
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,114 Points

As above, the else statement has no condition set to it so remove the "a<b". See below, this is how it should be. I hope this helps you.

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"); }