Question

I’m new to javascript and am having issues with a seemingly simple if/else statement.

Can anyone let me know why the below isn’t working please (Im pulling my hair out)

var is_expanded = false;
if (is_expanded==false) {
    alert('no');
    is_expanded = true;
} else {
    alert('yes');
}

I always get the ‘no’ alert (I never get to the else part).

Cheers for any help.

Answer 1

You previous line of code says var is_expanded = false;
which means if (is_expanded==false) will always evaluate to true.

So that is exactly what you are getting as output. What did you expect?

Next time when your same method is called, the value for is_expanded is again reset to false due to your first line of code. Then again it will alert no