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Start your free trialBen Mohammad
5,659 PointsConditional not running , not even the prompt.....
var answer = prompt('What programming language is the name of a gem?'); if ( answer === 'RUBY') { document.write (<p>"That's the right answer"</p>);
else{ } blaa blaa blaa
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsIt looks like you misplaced the quotes in your document.write.
It should probably look like this:
document.write("<p>That's the right answer</p>");
You're also missing the closing brace (}
) of the if block.
Ben Mohammad
5,659 PointsThanks Steven
chris kinser
2,800 Pointschris kinser
2,800 Pointsvar answer = prompt('What programming language is the name of a gem?'); var rightAnswer = ('Ruby'.toUpperCase()); if ( answer.toUpperCase() === rightAnswer) { document.write("<p>That's right!</p>"); } else { document.write("<p>Sorry, that's wrong.</p>"); }
I wrote mine like this and it worked. You are able to spell ruby any way you want and it will work