Greater than (>)

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The greater than (>) operator returns true if the left operand is greater than the right operand, and false otherwise.

Try it

console.log(5 > 3);
// Expected output: true

console.log(3 > 3);
// Expected output: false

// Compare bigint to number
console.log(3n > 5);
// Expected output: false

console.log("ab" > "aa");
// Expected output: true

Syntax

js
x > y

Description

The operands are compared using the same algorithm as the Less than operator, except the two operands are swapped. x > y is generally equivalent to y < x, except that x > y coerces x to a primitive before y, while y < x coerces y to a primitive before x. Because coercion may have side effects, the order of the operands may matter.

Examples

String to string comparison

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"a" > "b"; // false
"a" > "a"; // false
"a" > "3"; // true

String to number comparison

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"5" > 3; // true
"3" > 3; // false
"3" > 5; // false

"hello" > 5; // false
5 > "hello"; // false

"5" > 3n; // true
"3" > 5n; // false

Number to Number comparison

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5 > 3; // true
3 > 3; // false
3 > 5; // false

Number to BigInt comparison

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5n > 3; // true
3 > 5n; // false

Comparing Boolean, null, undefined, NaN

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true > false; // true
false > true; // false

true > 0; // true
true > 1; // false

null > 0; // false
1 > null; // true

undefined > 3; // false
3 > undefined; // false

3 > NaN; // false
NaN > 3; // false

Specifications

Specification
ECMAScript® 2025 Language Specification
# sec-relational-operators

Browser compatibility

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Node.js
Greater than (a > b)

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