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

Posted by xu dylan
xu dylan
4,768 Points

I passed answer one ,but in answer two it told me that task1 is no longer passing ...I don't know how to fix it.

var answer = prompt("what is the best programming language?"); if answer === "JavaScript" { alert("You are correct"); }

app.js 
var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if answer === "JavaScript" {
  alert("You are correct");
}
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="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Carlos Martinez
Carlos Martinez
10,660 Points
Carlos Martinez
Carlos Martinez
10,660 Points

Try surrounding the if statement in curly brackets and changing "JavaScript to "Javascript". Make the "s" lowercase.

xu dylan
xu dylan
4,768 Points

Thank you ! Now it works.