Question

i’m using Jquery. This if-statement works:

if ($(this).siblings(".numOfMatchedKeywords").text() == 1) {
                    $(this).siblings(".numOfMatchedKeywords").css({'color':'#0099ff'})
               }

But when i tried to turn it into a switch case, I can’t get it to work:

var numWord = $(this).siblings(".numOfMatchedKeywords").text();
                switch (numWord){
                    case 1: 
                        numWord.css({'color':'#0099ff'})
                    break;
                    case 2: 
                        numWord.css({'color':'#33cc33'})
                    break;
                    case 3: 
                        numWord.css({'color':'#ff0099'})
                    break;
                }

what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Compacted version:

var numWord = parseInt($(this).siblings(".numOfMatchedKeywords").text());
var colors = ['', '#0099ff', '#33cc33', '#ff0099'];
$(this).siblings(".numOfMatchedKeywords").css('color', colors[numWord]);