Question

I have a jQuery plugin with an if statement in it.

For some strange reason (probably it is just me screwing things up) it always gets in the else part even when the url’s are the same.

if (opts.startUrl == track.permalink.url) {
  var active = true;
} else {
  alert('|'+opts.startUrl+'| |'+track.permalink_url+'|');
  var active = false;
}

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Answer 1

The surrounding code uses track.permalink_url, while the if block evaluates track.permalink.url (which is always undefined), so this condition:

opts.startUrl == track.permalink.url

Always evaluates to false

Update: as @brianpeiris points out, the correct fix here would be to change the condition to:

opts.startUrl == track.permalink_url