Question

I’m trying to teach myself some basic jquery and am having trouble with an if statement I’m trying to use. My code is as follows:

var animate = 0;

$('a').click(function () {
if (animate == 0) {
$('#shadow').fadeOut(500);
var animate = 1;
}
});

I’m hoping to use some else statements further down the line, so that depending on the value of “animate” it will perform a different jquery action when clicked. I’m sure I’ve overlooked something obvious, but I’m banging my head against a wall trying to figure out what it is.

Any help would be most appreciated!

Answer 1

You shouldn’t use the var keyword again when assigning 1 to animate. By doing this, you are causing a syntax error since animate has already been declared within the same scope.