The webpage now has where I have been trying to get the if else clause
to work.

The else clause is working fine. It is giving me the correct county
name that I am clicking on.

On Apr 1, 2:59 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I have tried it the
> > following ways:
> > if ("COUNTY_NAM" == "WINNEBAGO"){
> > if ("{COUNTY_NAM}" == "WINNEBAGO"){
>
> Both of these are identical in operation to
>   if ("AA" == "BB"){
> or
>   if ("somerandomstringofcharacters" == "someothercharacters"){
> so of course will never ever be true.
>
> > if ({COUNTY_NAM} == "WINNEBAGO"){
> > //*i get a syntax error on this try above*
>
> Yes.
> I'm not too sure without looking it up, but I think
> {COUNTY_NAM} will try to create an anonymous javascript object - the
> { } part - and assign it some property based on the value of a
> variable called 'COUNTY_NAM'.   If that were to work, it would then
> try to equate the object with a string, which would never match either
> as the object and the string are of differing types.
>
> Yup , dogears = quotes - sorry, Olde Farte terminology.
>
> The link you've given doesn't do anything for me on click in FF2, I
> think 
> becausehttp://meltwater.isgs.uiuc.edu/ArcGIS/rest/services/coal_mines_test/M...
> is not resolveable by DNS for me.
>
> Nor does it contain any effort to have an if-clause as you are
> describing, so I have no idea where you are trying to run the if-
> clause or what you are trying to get hold of using the strange
> {COUNTY_NAM} term.

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