Question

I achived this by doing the following, but as a newbie to javascript and jquery i want to know if there is any shorter way to add multiple possible values.

if ($("input:first").val().toUpperCase() == "UNITED STATES" || $("input:first").val().toUpperCase() == "USA" || $("input:first").val().toUpperCase() == "AMERICA") {
                $("#check").text("Correct!").show().fadeOut(5000);
                return true;

Like

if ($("input:first").val().toUpperCase() == ("UNITED STATES","USA","AMERICA")) {
                $("#check").text("Correct!").show().fadeOut(5000);
                return true;

by this only validates the last answers in this case AMERICA.

Answer 1

Using $.inArray():

if( $.inArray( $("input:first").val().toUpperCase(), [ "UNITED STATES", "USA", "AMERICA" ] ) > -1 ) { ...

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/4ar2G/