How can I execute an action if either input a or b is correct/true?

Question

A user writes 'football' into my input bar and then the action on line 6 and 7 executes.
But I what if the user writes "Football", with a capital letter? I tried to implement the "logial or" || but I couldn't get it to work.

var input = document.getElementById("user_input");
let footballTeams = ["Manchester","Barcelona","Copenhagen"]

if (input.value == "football") {
    alert("These cities have football teams:" +
          "\n" + footballTeams[0] + "," + " " + footballTeams[1] + "," + " " + footballTeams[2])

[String#toLowerCase()](https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/toLowerCase) — Luca Kiebel, Nov 29 '19 at 14:48
just normalize your input to a standard, like all lower case characters and check against it. — Nina Scholz, Nov 29 '19 at 14:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '19 at 14:50

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try this:

if (input.value.toLowerCase() == "football")

answered Nov 29 '19 at 14:50

Constantin Trepadus

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '19 at 14:50

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Try

if (input.value.toLowerCase() == "football") {
   console.log('inside if');
}

<input id=input value="Football">

answered Nov 29 '19 at 14:50

Kamil Kiełczewski

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Please make at least some effort at explaining what's going on. – Luca Kiebel Nov 29 '19 at 14:51
Worked right away! Thank you so much! – Julius Nicolet Nielsson Nov 29 '19 at 15:13

How can I execute an action if either input a or b is correct/true?

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