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Posted by Obe Juarez
Obe Juarez
6,357 Points

My conditional statement goes straight to 'Else'

I have an input bar where if I write 'hello' inside of it, when I hit the button, I want it to turn the button text color to red, but it just goes straight to my else statement.

Heres my JS code:

const button = document.querySelector('button'); const input = document.querySelector('#input');

button.addEventListener('click', () => { if (input === 'hello') { button.style.color = 'red'; } else { alert('thats not valid'); } }

1 Answer

Brandon White
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Brandon White
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Brandon White
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Hi Obe,

You’re currently checking if input is equal to a string in your if condition. But input will be a node.

I think what you want to check is if input.textContent === “hello”.

Try making that change to see if things work out better for you.

Obe Juarez
Obe Juarez
6,357 Points

Yes! I actually added 'input.value' and than fixed not for me. I stopped coding for 5 days and I already forgot the basics lol. Thank you

Brandon White
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Brandon White
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Right. input.valué. Nice job fixing your bug. 👍🏾