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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Using Comparison Operators

Posted by Karen Creighton
Karen Creighton
30,185 Points

JavaScript - stuck again on a conditional statement

I'm not seeing what I'm doing wrong with this if else statement. The error message says it doesn't see the "a is not greater than b" part, but the alert box comes up with the "a is not greater than b" message. Most confused here...

var a = 10; var b = 20; var c = 30;

if (a > b) { alert ("<p>a is greater than b</p>"); } else { alert ("<p>a is not greater than b</p>"); }

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

if (a > b) {
  alert ("<p>a is greater than b</p>");
} else {
  alert ("<p>a is not greater than b</p>");
         }
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

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Very close. It will work if you leave out the html tags:

if (a > b) {
  alert ("a is greater than b");
} else {
  alert ("a is not greater than b");
         }
Karen Creighton
Karen Creighton
30,185 Points

Thanks!

Karen Creighton
Karen Creighton
30,185 Points

Thanks!