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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Use Comparison Operators

keller greathouse
keller greathouse
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Posted by keller greathouse
keller greathouse
4,351 Points

Add a conditional statement that tests if the value in variable a is greater than the value in variable b. If it is, log

The error is telling me that I am not logging in that a is not greater than b. But I clearly am in my else conditional.

script.js 
var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if (a>b){console.log("a is greater than b.");}
else {console.log("a is NOT greater than b.");}
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>

1 Answer

Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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This is one of those times where it's unfortunate how picky the backend of the challenge is being. What you have is fine, though I'm not sure why the change from consts to vars but that doesn't matter for this one.

You just need to remove the periods from the end of your console log strings.

var a = 10;
var b = 20;
var c = 30;
if (a>b){console.log("a is greater than b");}
else {console.log("a is NOT greater than b");}
keller greathouse
keller greathouse
4,351 Points
keller greathouse
keller greathouse
4,351 Points

Thank you! I do not know why it made a deal about my periods in that statement.

Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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I know some of these challenges are extremely specific in what they want. I'm sorry you got held up on that one but at least your logic and code was valid and correct!