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JavaScript Treehouse Club - MASH MASH - JavaScript Important Stuff - Part 3

Dagur Freyr Guðbrandsson
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Dagur Freyr Guðbrandsson
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Posted by Dagur Freyr Guðbrandsson
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Dagur Freyr Guðbrandsson
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,379 Points

whats does || mean?

i cant remember what this means so that means i am stuck

2 Answers

Billy Le
Billy Le
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the || means OR. It's a logical operator to check if the conditions on either side of the || is true or false.

James Matthews
James Matthews
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James Matthews
James Matthews
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Hi dude!

|| in JavaScript is the logical OR operator. Logical operators are used to combine multiple tests into a single condition, such as:

if (99 < score || score < 99) {
        document.write('<p>Who cares what ur score is! Nice job!</p>');
}

In this condition, the result will return true if score is greater than 99, OR if score is less than 99.