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

John Cato
John Cato
2,565 Points
Posted by John Cato
John Cato
2,565 Points

Add a Boolean value to the condition in this conditional statement. Use a boolean value that will result in the message

Trying to understand why this code isn't working.

var x = True; var y = False; if ( x = True) { alert('This is True'); } else { alert('This is false'); }

script.js 
var x = True;
var y = False;
if ( x = True) {
    alert('This is True');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}
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="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

3 Answers

Cissie Scurlock
Cissie Scurlock
11,072 Points
Cissie Scurlock
Cissie Scurlock
11,072 Points

Try using === in your if statement. There's also inconsistency with the capitalization of true and false.

John Cato
John Cato
2,565 Points
John Cato
John Cato
2,565 Points

Thank you, Cissie!

eck
eck
43,038 Points
eck
eck
43,038 Points

The boolean values for true and false should not be capitalized. I think this is why you are not getting your desired results.

Programming languages can be very sensitive. In JavaScript, punctuation and capitalization are very important and can be the difference between code that works or code that breaks.