Jquery OR || operator not working

Question

it\'s a really simple question. The or operator is not working, i am trying to display a different function for both the title and amount field name. Thank you

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Answer 1

You can't use || like that.

You need to do:

if (field.name === "title" || field.name === "amount")

Each statement on either side of the OR are completely separate, and evaluate themselves to be a single boolean value, true or false. Therefore, field.name === "title" will evaluate itself to be true or false, and then "amount" will try to evaluate itself as true or false.

I believe anything non-empty and non-zero is treated as true, so your OR statement will always be true as "amount" will always evaluate to true.

You can also do:

if (["title", "amount"].indexOf(field.name) > -1)

This is especially useful if you have more than 2 values to test.