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

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

I'm not sure what this question is asking me. Where do I put the boolean?

I'm really not sure what this challenge is asking me to do.

It wants a boolean value in the empty condition statement. But as the videos have taught us we need an opening boolean value in order to give the condition statement an expression to evaluate

So I tend to try,

var message = true

if (message) {}  

...etc

But the challenge won't have it. What am I missing?

script.js 
message = true;

if (message) {
    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>

1 Answer

Alex Heil
Alex Heil
53,547 Points
Alex Heil
Alex Heil
53,547 Points

hey Jonathan Grieve , from your code I see that you're actually on the right track. you set a variable to the boolean true and then pass it into the conditional.

however, the challenge is actually much more simple ;) it simply wants you to use the boolean directly, so no need to first create a variable and so on...

the code at the end would look like this:

if ( true ) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}

hope that helps and have a nice day ;)

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

When you put it like that, it makes so much sense! :)

And now when I read the question "boolean value" I see what it's asking for. I kept thinking the entire variable, so a name for the boolean.

Thanks for your help!! :)