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

Posted by deepsabey
deepsabey
2,295 Points

add a boolean value to the conditional statement

it results in parse error ....what i wrong ?

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

script.js 
if (true ) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jeff Pierce
Jeff Pierce
18,077 Points
Jeff Pierce
Jeff Pierce
18,077 Points

How many curly braces "{...}" do you have in your if statement?

Hint: they need to be an even number.

deepsabey
deepsabey
2,295 Points

oh thankyou :-)