Can someone help me with an if statement? The result is true, but the event will not fire

I am retrieving data that displays a value of true in the console, but when I set up an if statement

i开发者_JS百科f (onLive == true) {
 alert ("is working")
 }

the alert does not fire. Can anyone help me? Here is the code http://jsfiddle.net/8j947/

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isLive is "true" (a string containing the word true), not true (a boolean value).

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Works like this: http://jsfiddle.net/8j947/3/

You forgot to insert jQuery. And isLive returns 'true' a string, not a boolean! You can check it like this:

if (isLive == 'true') {
      alert('working');
}

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the var isLive specifically needs to compare boolean values. In this case, you might want to check what type it is comparing. I am quite sure that it is not a bool comparison. Secondly, as previously mentioned, the statement can be if(isLive=='true') { .... } Hope This Helps