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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Use Comparison Operators

Jaimin Patel
Jaimin Patel
9,020 Points
Posted by Jaimin Patel
Jaimin Patel
9,020 Points

Idk why my code is not working.

Idk why but this code will not run and idk how it is wrong.

script.js 
const a = 10;
const b = 20;
const c = 30;

if ( a > b ) {
  console.log("a is greater than b.");
} else {
  console.log("a is not greater than b.");
}
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>
Jaimin Patel
Jaimin Patel
9,020 Points
Jaimin Patel
Jaimin Patel
9,020 Points

Nvm, turns out the period was the issue.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

As you noticed, the instructions did not ask for punctuation in the strings.