Javascript string/integer comparisons

Question

I store some parameters client-side in HTML and then need to compare them as integers. Unfortunately I have come across a serious bug that I cannot explain. The bug seems to

Answer 1

The alert() wants to display a string, so it will interpret "2">"10" as a string.

Use the following:

var greater = parseInt("2") > parseInt("10");
alert("Is greater than? " + greater);

var less = parseInt("2") < parseInt("10");
alert("Is less than? " + less);