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

idriss Elouilani
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idriss Elouilani
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Posted by idriss Elouilani
idriss Elouilani
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the else Question doesn't go through

the else question doesn't work 1 var answer = prompt ('What is the best programming language?'); 2 if (answer === "JavaScript")alert("You are correct") else{alert("JavaScript is the best language!");

app.js 
var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?');
if (answer==="JavaScript")alert("You are correct")else{alert("JavaScript is the best language")};
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>

5 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! You've introduced a syntax error and started the else statement before it was really prepared. So if you run your code in the console you will get (depending on your browser) an error that looks something like: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token else.

There are a couple of ways to solve this. If you like your if and else on one line you can simply insert a semicolon after the first alert statement:

if (answer==="JavaScript")alert("You are correct");else{alert("JavaScript is the best language")};

Personally, I prefer to do something like this so it looks more obvious what's going on:

if (answer==="JavaScript") {
    alert("You are correct");
} else {
    alert("JavaScript is the best language");
}

But either will work. Hope this helps! :sparkles:

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

Hello Idriss,

It looks like you haven't provided the curly braces for your "truthy" block but you have for the "else" block.

Also you should terminate each statement, (which remember is different from an expression) with a semi colon. That's like punctuation (a period) for closing a sentence.

Try adding in the curlybraces in the appropriate places for the true part of the condition. :-)

i.e.

if () {} else {}