jquery - Any way to toggle between two strings using one piece of JavaScript?

Question

I want to do something like

if(something.val() == 'string1')
{
     something.val('string2');
}
else if(something.val() == 'string2')
{
    something.val('string1')
}

But in one line of code. I can't quite remember how it's done, but it involves question marks and colons...

Answer 1

Try:

something.val(something.val() == 'string1' ? 'string2' : 'string1');

It is called a ternary expression.