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

Posted by Alex Ortega
Alex Ortega
Courses Plus Student 2,610 Points

What am I doing wrong?

I've been trying to add an else clause on task 3 of the challenge and i can't seem to get it

app.js 
var answer = prompt ('What is the best programming language');
if ( answer === 'JavaScript'); {
alert ("<p> You are correct </p>");
} 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>

1 Answer

Elijah Quesada
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Elijah Quesada
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 32,965 Points

Looks like you have a stray semicolon. Remove it and it should work. 

var answer = prompt ('What is the best programming language');
if ( answer === 'JavaScript');  <----------------Remove semicolon
alert ("<p> You are correct </p>");
} else {
  alert("JavaScript is the best language!");
}
Alex Ortega
Alex Ortega
Courses Plus Student 2,610 Points

Thank you Elijah it worked perfectly