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

Posted by Lora Patterson
Lora Patterson
4,275 Points

JavaScript Basics - challenge 3 of 3 on If Else statement is saying Task 1 is no longer passing

I have looked this over extenstively and cannot get past this error. I can't see anything that is wrong, please help.

app.js 
var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?');
if ( answer === 'JavaScript' ) {
  document.alert("<p>You are correct</p>");
} else { 
  document.alert("<p>JavaScript is the best language!</p>");
       }
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>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

:point_right: I see a couple of issues here:

  • alert is not a document method, it is a window method (and you don't need to specify "window.")
  • the messages specified by the challenge do not contain HTML tags

Fix those and I think you'll have it.