Ternary Operator in JavaScript With Multiple Expressions?

Question

the_styles ? the_styles.appendTo(\'head\'); the_styles=null : the_styles = $(\'.stylesheet\').detach();

Obviously, this isn\'t valid. Notice the \"

Answer 1

the_styles ? (function() {the_styles.appendTo('head'); the_styles=null})() : 

Just wrap the code block in (function() { and })().

Now for the hard part: why would you want to do this? Perhaps there's a better solution!