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

Posted by Walker McKeel
Walker McKeel
467 Points

What am I missing in this conditional statement coding challenge?

is it bugged or am i missing something? it keeps telling me to use === to compare answer to 'Javascript'

app.js 
var answer = prompt('what is the best programming language?');
if (answer === '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

Jason Desiderio
Jason Desiderio
21,811 Points
Jason Desiderio
Jason Desiderio
21,811 Points

It looks like the error is in your capitalization of the 'S' in 'JavaScript'.

It should be answer === 'JavaScript'.

The whole valid answer looks like this:

var answer = prompt('what is the best programming language?');
if (answer === 'JavaScript') {
  alert('you are correct');
}
Walker McKeel
Walker McKeel
467 Points

Thanks, that one lowercase letter was all that was throwing it off.

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Jason Desiderio is correct.

You're also going to want to capitalize the "Y" in your alert message. Most time, the challenges are VERY SPECIFIC and picky. If it says to put in a sentence with a period and you leave it out, it will throw an error. Many times, I've put a period instead of exclamation mark and couldn't figure why it wouldn't pass.

Keep coding! Jason