What does the "?" (question mark) mean in javascript?

Question

I'm trying to comment out code that I used from a tutorial but haven't actually seen a ?-mark used in JavaScript...

This is a small part of the code below:

this.year = (isNaN(year) || year == null) ? calCurrent.getFullYear() : year;

Answer 1

What you are referring to is the ternary operator which is an inline conditional statement. To illustrate:

 this.year = (isNaN(year) || year == null) ? calCurrent.getFullYear() : year;

is equivalent to

if(isNaN(year) || year == null){
       this.year=calCurrent.getFullYear()
 }
 else{
        this.year=year;
 }