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

Harun Anshuur
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Harun Anshuur
Courses Plus Student 400 Points
Posted by Harun Anshuur
Harun Anshuur
Courses Plus Student 400 Points

Boolean conditional statement Whats wrong with my code? It keeps asking me if i put true inside parentheses

if (10>5 ) { alert("This is true"); }

else { alert("This is false"); }

script.js 
if (10>5 ) {
    alert("This is true");
} 

else {
    alert("This is false");
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Tray Denney
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Tray Denney
Courses Plus Student 12,884 Points
Tray Denney
Tray Denney
Courses Plus Student 12,884 Points

Heya, the challenge is only asking for you to add a "true" or "false" value that will make the IF statement output "this is true". It is not asking for a general truthy condition. Hope this helps.