Greater-than Operator in JavaScript



Greater-than Operator

In JavaScript, Greater-than comparison operator takes two operands, returns true if value in left side operand is greater than that of the right operand, or false otherwise.

Syntax

> symbol is used for comparison greater-than operator.

a > 5  //returns true if a has a value > 5
a > b  //returns true if a has a value greater than b

Examples

1. Check if value in a is greater than 5.

var a = 8;
if (a > 5) {
    console.log('a is greater than 5');
} else {
    console.log('a is not greater than 5');
}

2. Check if value in a is greater than that of in b.

var a = 5;
var b = 7;
if (a > b) {
    console.log('a is greater than b');
} else {
    console.log('a is not greater than b');
}