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

Posted by Haines Garner
Haines Garner
2,289 Points

Error in exercise but it runs

I typed the following code for the Javascript conditional code challenge :

var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?"); if (answer.toUpperCase() === "JAVASCRIPT") { document.write("You are correct"); }

I get an error message from the course but the code seems to run correctly. Any hints at what I am doing wrong?

app.js 
var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if (answer.toUpperCase === 'JAVASCRIPT') {
  alert("You are correct");
}
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="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

3 Answers

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

While your code is correct, the challenges look for very specific coding.

The task did not ask you to use the toUpperCase() function and wanted you to match the string "JavaScript".

var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if (answer === 'JavaScript') {
  alert("You are correct");
}
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Your answer is totally correct, but for the challenge all they want is for the conditional statement to be equal to "JavaScript"

if( answer === "JavaScript")

nothing more. the challenges are very strict and although your answer is the best choice, the challenge just want you to do the basics. I hope this helps.

Haines Garner
Haines Garner
2,289 Points
Haines Garner
Haines Garner
2,289 Points

Thanks Jeff & Jacob. the error I made originally was typing Javascript (I didn't capitalize the 's') The error I was receiving was that I wasn't using === for the conditional and that is when I started doing the other code experimentations.