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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Add a Final Else Clause

Posted by Alex Fourie
Alex Fourie
Courses Plus Student 1,611 Points

Why does it say I need to add an else statement, when I have run the program?

I think there is something wrong with the setup or answer to these questions, when I run the program, it says add an additional else statement, despite me having done so. When the program is run, the statement prints out "Who are you?" as it should... I may have missed something, I do not know what is going on.

script.js 
var isAdmin = false;
var isStudent = false;

if ( isAdmin ==true) {
    alert('Welcome administrator');
} else if (isStudent==true) {
    alert('Welcome student');
}
else window.alert("Who are you?");
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>
Alex Fourie
Alex Fourie
Courses Plus Student 1,611 Points

Never mind, all I needed was to add curly braces...

1 Answer

Rhys Kearns
Rhys Kearns
4,976 Points
Rhys Kearns
Rhys Kearns
4,976 Points 
var isAdmin = false;
var isStudent = false;

if ( isAdmin === true) {
    alert('Welcome administrator');
} else if (isStudent === true) {
    alert('Welcome student');
} else {
    alert("Who are you?");
};

Seems you forgot the brackets :)