Which should I use in my javascript code for comparisons and when testing for more than one condition?

">" or ">"?  "&&" or "&"? etc.

I thought I read somewhere that it's best to use the character entities, but maybe I was mistaken and they are only to be used when you need those special characters in html to show up on the page as that symbol.

I've just realized that the character entities don't work in javascript (when used for the purpose mentioned above) in every circumstance, which brought me to ask this question.

Have I been doing something stupid? lol

You use the operators NOT the entities.

http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jifelse.htm

Like Hirst said, you use the operators, not the entities.

Thanks.

Yeah I knew all about the operators and how to use them. The link you gave me was actually the place I learned it. It's a great site. The guy teaches it well and he's pretty funny too.

I just thought I read somewhere that using the entities was better, but after I recovered from my concussion and could think better I was thinking that I must have been mistaken, especially after they didn't work in one case.

Using the entities is better iff (that's if and only if, for the uninitiated) you're trying to show your code to someone else and it's not a VB-type setup whereby HTML codes such as <> are automatically converted for you (e.g. on a WordPress blog).

Then you'd have to do something like &lt; to show less than and &gt; to show greater than.

Honest mistake though. 'Sall good.