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

Swan The Human
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The lesson said you don't need a semicolon in Conditional Statements but in this challenge they are there. Enlighten me?

In one of the previous lessons teaching conditional statements, it said you didn't need to have semicolons. Now in this code challenge they are there after the if and else statements. I'm not sure if it just meant after the curly braces closing out the if else statements or all together including alerts/document.write, etc. Any extra info or explanation would be greatly appreciated!!!

-swan

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Semicolons are actually optional after statements, but it's "best practice" to use them anyway.

But a code block contains statements between two braces, it's not a statement itself, so you don't put a semicolon after one. If you look closely at the quiz examples, I think you will see that the semicolons are at the end of statements inside the blocks, not after the blocks themselves.