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

Posted by Katherine Ward
Katherine Ward
4,295 Points

Parse Error : Not sure what my error is....any help appreciated. Clearly I missed a syntax rule here.

Not sure what I am missing here.

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

if(var a > var b){
  window.alert('a is greater than b');
} else {
  window.alert('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>

1 Answer

Owa Aquino
Owa Aquino
19,277 Points
Owa Aquino
Owa Aquino
19,277 Points

Hi Katherine,

You can remove the var inside your condition 

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

if(a > b){ 
  window.alert('a is greater than b');
} else {
  window.alert('a is not greater than b');
}
Katherine Ward
Katherine Ward
4,295 Points

Thank you Owa!