Refactoring a large block of chained if-else statements

Question

This seems like overkill and I would like to refactor this...any suggestions

    if($(this).text() == \"Grocery\"){
        $(\".type_changer\").attr(\"id\",         


        

Answer 1

var textToVal =
{
    "Grocery" : "gro",
    "Restaurant" : "res"
    // and so on ...
};

for (var text in textToVal) {
    if ($(this).text() == text)
        $(".type_changer").attr("id", textToVal[text]);
}