Question

I really like aligning the ? and the : of my ternary operator when they don’t fit on a line, like this:

var myVar = (condition
    ? ifTrue
    : ifFalse
);

However, JSHint complains with:

Bad line breaking before ‘?’

Why would JSHint have this warning? Is there any nastyness (like semicolon insertion, etc) it is protecting me against or can I safely change my JSHINT configuration to ignore it?

Answer 1

This works and is certainly valid. It’s especially useful in more complicated use cases, like nested ones.

var a = test1
         ? b
         : test2
            ? c
            : d;