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Shambhavi Shukla
981 Pointsjavascript basics - conditional statements - if-else
Something's wrong. The test case wouldn't pass.
var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if(answer === "JavaScript");
{
alert("You are correct");
} else {
alert("JavaScript is the best language!");
}
<!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
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! You're doing fantastic! But you have a runaway semicolon. I know it gets tempting to type a semicolon at the end of every line when you're writing JavaScript, but this line...
if(answer === "JavaScript");
... does not need a semicolon. Remember, that we use them when we're ending a statement. But this is the beginning of a block of code. If I remove it, your code passes all three steps!
Hope this helps!
Shambhavi Shukla
981 PointsHey thanks Jen! I didn't notice it. Thanks again :)