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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Add an Else If Clause

Josias Kabore
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Josias Kabore
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 2,652 Points

cant figure out what's wrong with this code

else if code

script.js
var isAdmin = false;
var isStudent = true;

if ( isAdmin ) {
    alert('Welcome administrator');
}else if(isStudent){ alert('welcome student');}
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

There is nothing wrong with the code you wrote, however I am pretty sure you are asking, why your challenge is failing. That would be because the alert you are outputting is not identical to what the challenge asked for. The expected result is case sensitive.

Just simply capitalize the W in your welcome student alert :]

Hello Josias Kabore,

Is there something specific that's not working with your code? I ran your code in my browser and everything worked fine. I even switched the variables around to look like this:

var isAdmin = true;
var isStudent = fasle;

And everything still worked.