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
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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® 2026 Language Specification # sec-relational-operators |