Question

this code works fine without the if condition test, where am I going wrong here with the if condition?

$(document).ready(function() {
  if ($("input[name=contest_open]").val() == true) {
  var refreshId = setInterval(function()
  {
       $('#tweets').fadeOut("slow").fadeIn("slow");
       $.get("/event", { event:$("input[name=event]").val(), }, function(data) {
         console.log(data.success);
         console.log(data.page_link);
         console.log('Succesfully Loaded Data from JSON FORMAT GET');
         $('#tweets').html(data.html);
         $('#pagelink').html(data.page_link);
       });      
  }, 30000); 
  }
})

Answer 1

The problem is that val does not return a boolean value. If you are trying to check whether the value of input[name=contest_open] is not empty, try val() !== "" instead.

If you are trying to check whether the value is the string “true”, you need to enclose true with quotes.