Possible Duplicate:
Javascript === vs == : Does it matter which “equal” operator I use?
What are the differences between ===
and ==
, !==
and ==... when should you use one and when should you use the other?
Possible Duplicate:
Javascript === vs == : Does it matter which “equal” operator I use?
What are the differences between ===
and ==
, !==
and ==... when should you use one and when should you use the other?
=== is the Identity operator, and is used to test that value and type are equal.
so..
"3" == 3 // true
"3" === 3 // false
1 == true // true
1 === true // false
"1" == true // true
"1" === true // false
so when you care that value and type are equal, or not equal use Identity operators === or !==
The "normal" ==
operators in javascript perform type coercion, and try their best to do things like treat a string as number or an object as a string where required. The longer === operators will not do type coercion, but rather a strict comparison within the type.
===
and !==
are the same as ==
and !=
, but additionally do checks for the variable types.