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lennycastaneda
Courses Plus Student 13,312 PointsConditional statement is correct but compile is not detecting it as correct.
Please help me figure out why the code is not compiling.
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if (a > b) {
alert("<p> a is greater than b </p>");
} else {
alert("<p> a is NOT greater than b </p>");
}
<!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>
2 Answers
David Bath
25,940 PointsI think it is not correct because you are putting your message in <p> tags. You don't need to do that in a Javascript alert.
Simon Coates
28,694 Pointsin chrome, at least, it just outputs the tags as plain text. It doesn't gain you anything, but not much of a problem. (update, oh, it for a challenge. yeah, removing the p tags does it.)
lennycastaneda
Courses Plus Student 13,312 Points....thanks for the responses...adding "true" fixed it..
if (a > b === true) { alert("a is greater than b"); } else { alert("a is NOT greater than b"); }
Simon Coates
28,694 Pointsit's the p tags - a> b is going to be a boolean, so doesn't need an evaluation against true.
David Bath
25,940 PointsDavid Bath
25,940 Pointstrue shouldn't be necessary. I noticed you changed your alert strings.