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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
