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

Posted by Antwaun Johnson
Antwaun Johnson
Courses Plus Student 11,157 Points

Trouble with conditional statement

The prompt displays when I delete the conditional statement; however, when I add the conditional statement nothing runs.

var answer = prompt('What programming language is the name of a gem?'); if ( answer === 'Ruby') { document.write("<p>That's right!!!</p>" }

4 Answers

Agnes Demes
Agnes Demes
6,613 Points

var answer = prompt('What programming language is the name of a gem?'); if ( answer === 'Ruby') { document.write("<p>That's right!!!</p>"); }

Agnes Demes
Agnes Demes
6,613 Points
Agnes Demes
Agnes Demes
6,613 Points

you are missing the closing bracket in the document write statement

Antwaun Johnson
PLUS
Antwaun Johnson
Courses Plus Student 11,157 Points
Antwaun Johnson
Antwaun Johnson
Courses Plus Student 11,157 Points

Thank you. I did not see that.

Ismayil Aliyev
Ismayil Aliyev
18,560 Points
Ismayil Aliyev
Ismayil Aliyev
18,560 Points

Also u you need to use "==" instead of "==="

Damian Padilla
Damian Padilla
6,107 Points

Is that true? The instructor advised to use "==="