Learn Data Types and Conditionals Lesson I

In the last example, you had two choices if or else. But what if you want to have more than two choices? You can use the else if statement to add more conditions to our code. The else if statement allows us to check multiple conditions and execute a block of code when the first condition is true. If the first condition is false, it will check the next condition and so on. If none of the conditions are true, the else block will be executed.

Here is an example of the else if statement:

let x = 5;

if (x > 10) {
  console.log("x is greater than 10");
} else if (x > 5) {
  console.log("x is greater than 5");
} else {
  console.log("x is less than or equal to 5");
}

In this example, the x variable is compared to the number 10 using the > operator. If x is greater than 10, the first block of code will be executed. Otherwise, the else if statement will check the next condition. If x is greater than 5, the second block of code will be executed. Otherwise, the else block will be executed.