jQuery 'If' statement string comparison not working

Question

I\'m having a very hard time trying to do something very simple. Here\'s the code:

        if(data == \'success\') {

            alert(\'foo\');

        }          


        

Answer 1

Client side validation working fine.

$.trim() fine.

Thank You Nick. It took me long to understand why its not working ...

Answer 2

You can remove the trailing ?> in your file, if it is the last line in the file. I want to response to the comments to the original issue, but i don't see how.

Answer 3

You can fix it on the client side using $.trim() like this:

if($.trim(data) == 'success') {

Or, a better approach would be removing the new-line coming from the server-side, probably an erroneous new-line in your PHP somewhere, check before or after the <? ?> block, this is most often where they crop up.

Or, just exit after outputting your content, like this:

if($update) {
  echo 'success';
  exit();
}