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

Posted by Maria Cecilia Le Brech
Maria Cecilia Le Brech
3,611 Points

Add a conditional statement that opens an alert dialog box with the message "You are correct" when the answer is the str

When i try to do task 2 there appears a message saying "Task one is no longer passing" Can you fix this so i can earn my badge?

app.js
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>
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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I'd prefer to see your code so that I can help explain what's going wrong. There's a markdown cheatsheet at the bottom of this page that will show you how to post code to us so that we can help you debug it. :smiley:

4 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Maria Cecilia Le Brech Yes... and no :smiley: Challenges are very picky and you went above and beyond the call of duty here. You're checking the answer regardless of what capitalization the user enters, which is a great thing! But it doesn't match with the instructions of the challenge. They explicitly ask you to compare to the string "JavaScript". If you don't compare against that string, the challenge fails. Take a look:

var answer=prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if(answer ==="JavaScript") { 
  alert("You are correct"); 
}

Happy coding! :thumbsup:

Leslie Erin Root
Leslie Erin Root
13,276 Points

Thank you for your explanation, I was doing the same thing and could not understand what was wrong. Everyone thinks they are detail oriented until they take a JavaScript class and learn what detail oriented really means.

Maria Cecilia Le Brech
Maria Cecilia Le Brech
3,611 Points
Maria Cecilia Le Brech
Maria Cecilia Le Brech
3,611 Points

i did do right stage number 2 var answer=prompt("What is the best programming language?"); if(answer.toUpperCase()==="JAVASCRIPT"){ alert("You are correct"); }

Maria Cecilia Le Brech
Maria Cecilia Le Brech
3,611 Points
Maria Cecilia Le Brech
Maria Cecilia Le Brech
3,611 Points

Thank you! Ill try that!

Pedro Morales
Pedro Morales
1,574 Points
Pedro Morales
Pedro Morales
1,574 Points

Thanks, that was hard to find the answer.