Question

I’m trying to improve my jquery/javascript syntax. Is there a better way to write this?

if (ok)
    var mymsg   = '<p id="ok-box">'
                +   "You're good to go"
                + '</p>';
}else {
    var mymsg   = '<p id="not-ok-box">'
                +   "Error"
                + '</p>';
}

I was thinking if jquery/javascript had a similar syntax to the following PHP syntax, it would be great:

$mymsg = ($ok) ? "You're good to go" : "Error";

Answer 1

You mean like:

var mymsg = ok ? '<p id="ok-box">You\'re good to go</p>' :
    '<p id="not-ok-box">Error</p>';

It does! 🙂