Question

in jQuery how do I activate a method automatically rather than selecting an element when an if..else statement is ran? For example:

if(data.session_state == false) {
   RatherThanSelectingAutoRunProccess.fancybox();

Answer 1

Here’s an idea: side effects!

var data = {
  session_state: function() {
    $("#select").fancybox();
    return true;
  }
};

if(data.session_state() == true) { // fancybox is called
  // do some other stuff
}

Note that session_state is now a function.

Also note that I would immediately fire a developer who wrote this in my project 🙂