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

I think here is an error

I wrote:

var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?'); if(answer === 'JavaScript' ) alert ('You are correct'); else alert ('JavaScript is the best language!');

Bummer asks "did you include cause" yes I did

app.js
var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?');
if(answer === 'JavaScript' ) alert ('You are correct'); 
else alert ('JavaScript is the best language!');
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>

2 Answers

Hey Pochtalion,

All that is wrong is you left off your curly braces :)

var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?');
if(answer === 'JavaScript' ){
 alert ('You are correct'); 
}else {
alert ('JavaScript is the best language!');
}

you should write this way

``` This Code if(answer === 'JavaScript' ) { alert ('You are correct'); } else { alert ('JavaScript is the best language!'); }