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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Using Comparison Operators

Posted by ROBERT REVES
ROBERT REVES
2,730 Points

Bummer: I don't see the message 'a is NOT greater than b'. Are you sure you wrote the conditional statement correctly?

I don't know why I keep getting this error because it runs in the workspace just fine. What am I doing wrong?

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if ( a > b ) {
  alert("a is greater than b ");  
} else {
  alert("a is not greater than b ");
}
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

Jorge Flores
Jorge Flores
2,207 Points

From what I can tell its your extra space on your statement. You message prints "a is not greater than b " and they want "a is not greater than b". The difference? The space at the end that you added that isn't equal to the statement that they requested.

alert("a is not greater than b ");

versus 

  alert("a is not greater than b");
ROBERT REVES
ROBERT REVES
2,730 Points

Than you so much for getting back to me so soon with such and easy fix.