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

Posted by Sandeep Singh
Sandeep Singh
6,083 Points

STUCK IN TASK

JAVASCRIPT -unable to understand what I am doing wrong.

app.js 
var answer =  prompt('What is the best programing 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

Luc de Brouwer
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Luc de Brouwer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 17,939 Points
Luc de Brouwer
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Luc de Brouwer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 17,939 Points

Hi Sandeep,

You are putting in LITERAL values in your condition. If you put the word JavaScript in double quotes, your statement will work. Now the code thinks you are referring to a keyword, variable or method as parameter that was never declared.

the answer you store is from type ' string ' so in order to compare what is in that variable you need to tell the statement that you want to compare your variable that contains a string to an identical set of characters, that you also define as string by using the double " or single ' quotes.

Sandeep Singh
Sandeep Singh
6,083 Points

Got it! Thank you!