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

Galen Westerfield
Galen Westerfield
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Posted by Galen Westerfield
Galen Westerfield
6,515 Points

Why isn't this boolean conditional evaluating to true?

The hint asks whether 'true' was added to the parenthesis but this shouldn't matter because even the shorthand 'if ( n ) {' should evaluate as true and execute the code.

script.js 
var n = true;
if ( n === true ) {
    alert('This is true');
} else {
    alert('This is false');
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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