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

Posted by Ashley Abid
Ashley Abid
863 Points

What's wrong with my conditional statement?

Hello!

So I tried following the directions and creating an if-then statement, where an alert box saying "You are correct" would pop up after typing in Javascript for the answer to the prompt question. When I test out my code, it seems to work just fine but for some reason, Treehouse is saying my code is wrong? Not sure where to go from here but any help would be greatly appreciated! ^_^

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>

1 Answer

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points

Your code is correct, the only issue is you should be looking for "JavaScript" (with a capital 'S') per the instructions. Sorry we're so pedantic sometimes!

Ashley Abid
Ashley Abid
863 Points

Oh, thank you so much! And, no worries-I'm sure the strict syntax makes for good practice in the future! :)