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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Introducing Conditional Statements

Ben Thornton
Ben Thornton
1,605 Points
Posted by Ben Thornton
Ben Thornton
1,605 Points

1st task becomes broken when trying to check the third step.

I have written this code three times and have watched the video the same amount. Not sure if I am making a syntactical mistake for the variable creation or the conditional statement. The first 2 tasks get checked and work fine but when I add the else clause then it says that my Task 1 no longer works.

app.js 
var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?")

if (answer === "JavaScript") {
  document.alert("You are correct")
} else {
 document.alert("JavaScript is the best language!") 
}
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="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points
Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points

Hi Ben,

Rather than document.alert just use alert. It is also good practice to finish each line with a semicolon ;.

var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");

if (answer === "JavaScript") {
  alert("You are correct");
} else {
  alert("JavaScript is the best language!");
}
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,696 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,696 Points

Yo Damien!

When writing inline code, use the back tick (`) instead of the single quote ('). On that note, the valid syntax for JavaScript is ```javascript not ```js.

Check out this handy post!

Cheers!

Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points
Damien Watson
Damien Watson
27,419 Points

Hi Rich, Good to know. Oh, I wasn't trying to write inline code just highlighting the word, didn't know you could... haha.

Both 'js' and 'javascript' seem to be valid? Also 'objc' works but is not listed.

var test = "js";

var test = "javascript";

id test = "objc";
Ben Thornton
Ben Thornton
1,605 Points
Ben Thornton
Ben Thornton
1,605 Points

Thank you so much Damien! That was the problem!