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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Write an 'if' Statement

David Dunlop
David Dunlop
3,269 Points
Posted by David Dunlop
David Dunlop
3,269 Points

Create a conditional statement and if isAdmin is true assign the message variable to "Welcome Admin"

this is my code and the error is "make sure you are assigning a string to message in the conditional statement

script.js 
const isAdmin = true;
const isStudent = false;
let message;
if (isAdmin === 'true') {
 message = "Welcome admin"; 
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points

The condition will always fail because isAdmin is a Boolean value, but it is being compared to a string using the type-sensitive comparison operator.

This can be easily fixed by just removing the quotes from around 'true'.

But Booleans can be tested directly, so the comparison is not even needed. Simply if (isAdmin) will do the job.