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

pamela guy
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pamela guy
Courses Plus Student 4,311 Points

Add an else clause to complete the conditional statement. Inside the else clause add another alert that says "JavaScript

Don't really understand why my code is not working please help.

app.js
var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if(answer === "JavaScript");{
alert("You are correct");
} else(answer === "Ruby: {

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

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

An "else" does not use a conditional expression.

It doesn't need one since it handles everything the "if" doesn't cover. There's also a string without a closing quote, but that doesn't matter because your else line should just be like this:

} else {