How to check 'undefined' value in jQuery

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Gaurav picture Gaurav · May 18, 2012 · Viewed 514.4k times · Source

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How we can add a check for an undefined variable, like:

function A(val) {
  if (val == undefined) 
    // do this
  else
    // do this
}

Answer

VisioN picture VisioN · May 18, 2012

JQuery library was developed specifically to simplify and to unify certain JavaScript functionality.

However if you need to check a variable against undefined value, there is no need to invent any special method, since JavaScript has a typeof operator, which is simple, fast and cross-platform:

if (typeof value === "undefined") {
    // ...
}

It returns a string indicating the type of the variable or other unevaluated operand. The main advantage of this method, compared to if (value === undefined) { ... }, is that typeof will never raise an exception in case if variable value does not exist.

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