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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Use Comparison Operators

Posted by Anna Bazileeva
Anna Bazileeva
1,249 Points

challenge task 1

Can't understand what wrong SyntaxError: script.js: Unexpected token ``

script.js 
const a = 10;
const b = 20;

if(a > b) {
  console.log('a is greater than b'); 
} else {
 console.log('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

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
8,481 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
8,481 Points

You've omitted a } to close the else block. The message that it's giving here isn't highly helpful.

Anna Bazileeva
Anna Bazileeva
1,249 Points

Thank you