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

What is wrong with my code?

var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?'); if ( answer === 'Javascript' ) { alert('You are correct'); }

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

3 Answers

You are using lower-case 's' in "Javascript" within condition expression, whereas the challenge expects you to use an upper-case 'S' as "JavaScript".

Here's a solution:

var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?');
if (answer === 'JavaScript') {
  alert('You are correct');
}

To get around that in the future you could always cast it all to lowercase...

var answer = (prompt('What is the best programming language?')).toLowerCase();
if (answer === 'javascript') {
  alert('You are correct');
}

:)

Thanks. I didn't even realize I made a mistake on the spelling

Welcome, typos happen.