Thought I did this correctly as well? Apparently not?

Question

script.js

if (answer === "a > b");
{ console.log("That's correct")
};
else {
console.log("a < b")
};
const a = 10;
const b = 20;
const c = 30;

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>

Answer 1 · 2020-12-01T23:43:05Z

December 1, 2020 11:43pm

Hey Kamran,

Some notes on your answer:

if (answer === "a > b"); // conditional should only contain (a > b). Semicolon ends statement -- remove it.
{ console.log("That's correct") // Log the string given in the question
}; // Remove semicolon or statement ends here
else {
console.log("a < b") // Log the string given in the question
};

Inside if() is the condition to be evaluated. You want this to just be (a > b), as that will evaluate to true or false depending on the variables given to it. Right now you're saying "does the variable answer exactly equal the string "a > b". There is no variable answer, and a or b in quotes will not access the variables you have.
Semicolons are used to end statements. This is an if-then statement, so you don't want any semicolons separating its parts. You can have semicolons inside the curly brackets as that's code that runs after the condition is checked.
Challenges are often specific about answers they want produced. This challenge wants one of two strings logged: "a is greater than b" or "a is not greater than b". If they are not exact then it will not accept your answer.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you get stuck or have any questions.

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Kamran Hussain

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Thought I did this correctly as well? Apparently not?

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