# My If else statement is not working :( help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-if-else-statement-is-not-working-help/220624>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 27, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-if-else-statement-is-not-working-help/220624 "2007-03-27T20:20:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ajcfalcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@ajcfalcon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ajcfalcon)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-if-else-statement-is-not-working-help/220624/1 "2007-03-27T20:20:49Z")

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To start,

there are 5 tabs at the top of my page. The first one being “home”, the next one being “projects”. When i click on the projects tab, i created a movie clip from an external .swf that has some more tabs that kindof drop down, if you will. My movie clip is divided into sections:

\_up - which has nothing on it  
\_on - which makes the buttons drop down  
\_out - which makes the buttons reverse and pop up

My dilema:

When you click on projects i have it coded

\_root.secondarytabs.gotoAndPlay("\_on");

which works like a charm. Then on the “home” tab, i coded it

\_root.secondarytabs.gotoAndPlay("\_out");

which also works like a charm. My problem is that when the home page is already on, and i click home again, it shows the buttons fly up… which were non-existent to begin with, so it looks funny. I wanted to use some sort of “if else” statement or something to make this work properly. So i had:

if (secondarytabs == “\_on”) {  
\_root.secondarytabs.gotoAndPlay("\_out")

} else {  
\_root.secondarytabs.gotoAndPlay("\_up")

}

Thinking that if the movie is in the “\_on” state, meaning the buttons are dropped down and visible, then when i click on “home” it will start the “\_out” portion of the video so the buttons will jump up. Otherwise, if the video is in a different state, it will just move the video to “\_up”, where it will show nothing anyways… but there is something wrong with my code becuase it doesnt work…

Please help ☹