Judging by my stats it seems like most people who visit my site seem to be interested in my post on the Javascript Ternary Operator. As a follow up to this I thought I would post another article demonstrating some more uses of the ternary operator.
As I stated a few days ago I’ve recently been doing a lot of work with JSON objects to help develop some functionality for prototyping. Whilst I’ve done this I’ve also begun reading Object-Oriented Javascript
So just recently at work I was completing some javascript work using the jQuery library; though this post isn’t specific to the jQuery library itself. I’d reached a point in my code where depending on whether a value was above 1 wanted to return “item” or items”. A perfect candidate for the ternary operator I thought. So I put together the following snippet:
item = (val == 1)? "item":"items";
So I fired up firefox,tested a few conditions and everything worked. Just to be on the safe side I loaded up IE7.
To my suprise IE7 was throwing up an error. I thought it was because IE was having difficulting testing a text input value as a number. But after a number of tests and alerts everything was fine. So what was the issue?
