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

Posted by Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
2,167 Points

Now what am I doing wrong?

So based on the lesson this looks right but no matter how I type it the program says either Syntax error or Parse error. What am I missing and why don't they have more specific help in the lesson?

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if ( answer.toUpperCase () a > b ) {
  alert(document.write("<p>a is greater than b</p>"));
} else {
  alert(document.write("<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>
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
2,167 Points

the toUpperCase was added after it came up in an error message, otherwise it doesn't make sense and I have tried it with and without

4 Answers

Ben Spears
Ben Spears
19,148 Points
Ben Spears
Ben Spears
19,148 Points 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;

if (a>b) {
  alert('a is greater than b');
} else {
  alert('a is not greater than b');
}
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

You are correct that answer.toUppercase() is not needed. The challenge is asking you to alert your message only, so there is no need for document.write or the p tags.

Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
2,167 Points

I will try taking out the document.write and the <p> tags. Thank you!

Ben Spears
Ben Spears
19,148 Points
Ben Spears
Ben Spears
19,148 Points

to start, the conditional statement should only check if (a >b)

Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
2,167 Points
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
2,167 Points

Thank you both, I was overthinking it and trying to add too much code, this helped out a lot! Thank you again!