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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Add an Else If Clause

Jared Ledbetter
Jared Ledbetter
21,672 Points
Posted by Jared Ledbetter
Jared Ledbetter
21,672 Points

Am I doing something wrong here?

Challenge Question: Add an else if clause that tests to see if the isStudent variable is true. If it is then open an alert dialog with the message 'Welcome student'.

When I couldn't get this to go through I checked the MDN to verify that I was doing it correctly. Still can't get this to go through. The first question was about the admin, and I also tried copying that one, changing admin to student, and adding else.

Any thing you see that is wrong? Or is this a glitch in the matrix?

script.js 
var isAdmin = false;
var isStudent = true;

if ( isAdmin ) {
    alert('Welcome administrator');
}   else if ( isStudent ) {
  alert('Welcome student');
}
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="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Cooper Runstein
Cooper Runstein
11,850 Points
Cooper Runstein
Cooper Runstein
11,850 Points

I copied and pasted your answer and it passed, I'd give treehouse an email about this unless someone else figures out whats going on