1. Ten Simple JavaScript Exercises

1 of 10 simple JavaScript exercises. http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/kurser/webtechnology/lab4.html JavaScript Exercise: Define a function max() that takes two numbers as arguments and returns the largest of them. Use the if-then-else construct available in Javascript.

by Lisa French

HTML

<div id="console-log"></div>

JavaScript

//Hack to mimic console within JSFiddle
var consoleLine = "<p class=\"console-line\"></p>";
console = {
    log: function (text) {
        $("#console-log").append($(consoleLine).html(text));
    }
};

//Begin exercise
var numberOne = 2;
var numberTwo = 9999;

function max() {
    if (numberOne > numberTwo) {
        console.log(numberOne);
    } else {
        console.log(numberTwo);
    }
}

max(numberOne, numberTwo);