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

sean farrelly
sean farrelly
1,614 Points
Posted by sean farrelly
sean farrelly
1,614 Points

how to do a conditional statement with a parenthesis in it

how to do a conditional statement with a parenthesis in it

script.js 
if ( ) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}
{
if('true'){ 
  alert('this is true');
  ['parenthesis'] 
} else{
  alert ('this is false');
  ['parenthesis']
}
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

mariuszanou
mariuszanou
16,394 Points
mariuszanou
mariuszanou
16,394 Points

Hi, boolean is true or false. You don't put it in quotation marks: "true". Here if (true) { alert('This is true'); } else { alert('This is false'); }

Hope this helps.