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

Posted by Maxym Ostafiichuk
Maxym Ostafiichuk
1,851 Points

I dont know what i did wrong..

The boolean was supposed to end the challenge but instead gave me an error.

script.js 
var boolean = true;
if ( boolean === true ) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}
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>

2 Answers

Daniel Newman
PLUS
Daniel Newman
Courses Plus Student 10,715 Points
Daniel Newman
Daniel Newman
Courses Plus Student 10,715 Points

The one and only problem of your code is "boolean" variable. It is reserved word in JS.

You can find other reserved words here and the same is here.

Abe Layee
Abe Layee
8,378 Points
Abe Layee
Abe Layee
8,378 Points

In javaScript Boolean is either true or false. Think of it as a switch. In the challenge, the question is asking to create a popup message that says "this is true". All you have to do inside the if statement is set the statement to true. What you have the is correct don't get me wrong but this is true house. In a browser, your code is fine. The solution to this is below. I am sorry if I couldn't make it clear for you, but your code is correct.

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