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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Add a Final Else Clause

Posted by monica shim
monica shim
2,197 Points

Conditional statements - using final else clause

Add a final else clause to this conditional statement so that if the isAdmin variable and isStudent variables are both false an alert opens with the message "Who are you?"

Can't seem to tie in both of those conditions into final else clause all at once. Help!

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

if ( isAdmin ) {
    alert('Welcome administrator');
} else if (isStudent) {
    alert('Welcome student');
}
else (-----) {
  alert ("who are you?");
}
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

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Monica,

The final else clause does not take any conditions. It will only execute when or if all the previous conditionals return false. So, when the if clause returns false, it goes to the else if. When that returns false, it will automatically execute the else clause.

else {
  alert ("who are you?");
}

Hope that helps. :) :dizzy:

monica shim
monica shim
2,197 Points

makes sense, thank you!