Using If in JQuery

Question

I'm using the jQuery Clean Calendar Plugin, and it's working well. However, in my jQuery code, I want to check whether any '/' is present in textbox.val(). Then I want to do some operations. How do I check if the value contains '/' in it?

Answer 1

Try

   if (textbox.val().indexOf( "/") >= 0)
   {
   }

Same I guess will work for attribute:

   if ($( "#id").attr( "some_attr").indexOf( "/") >= 0)
   {
   }

Answer 2

Just to suggest a slightly more concise way to do it, using ternary and match() instead:

$( "#id").attr( "some_attr").match('/') ? alert('got a forward slash') : alert('no forward slash');