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

Posted by melissawright
melissawright
5,903 Points

Task 1 no longer passing?

When I run the following code, it passes: var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?');

but when I add the conditional statement, like this: var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?'); if (answer.toUpperCase() ==='JAVASCRIPT') { alert("You are correct"); };

It says "Oops, Task 1 is no longer passing".

What am I 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>

2 Answers

Joseph Perez
Joseph Perez
25,122 Points
Joseph Perez
Joseph Perez
25,122 Points

Hi Melissa!

The challenge wants you to not use the javascript uppercase method. So your code should look like this :)

var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?');

if(answer === 'JavaScript') {
  alert('You are correct');
}
melissawright
melissawright
5,903 Points

Hi Joseph!

Thank you - I removed the semicolon on the if statement, as well as logged out and restarted the challenge, and it is still giving me the same error (in spite of the fact that I get "You are correct" in the browser).

Joseph Perez
Joseph Perez
25,122 Points
Joseph Perez
Joseph Perez
25,122 Points

I edited my original answer to better guide you. The challenge instructions can be a little tricky sometimes, I hope this helps :)

melissawright
melissawright
5,903 Points

Awesome, problem solved! :)

Leyton Parker
Leyton Parker
6,556 Points
Leyton Parker
Leyton Parker
6,556 Points

you don't need the ; at the end of your if loop

melissawright
melissawright
5,903 Points

Thanks for the reply - I tried removing the semicolon, and the code runs correctly in the browser, resulting in an alert saying "You are correct", but I still get the error about Task 1.

Leyton Parker
Leyton Parker
6,556 Points

try starting the code challenge over from the beginning, i've had a similar issue where the challenge would not accept the correct task 2 until it reconfirmed that task 1 was correct.

maybe that'll work