Javascript, "if" statement won't work?

At what point does the "if" statement ever get called again? Ever? I look at your code, and I see the "if" statement is in the global area, not inside a function, so it will be executed exactly once when the page loads. And when the page loads, there's a nice little assignment that sets it to 0 before testing it. So, in a nutshell, that "if" statement can never evaluate to "true". That "hello" will never be executed. What you probably want is something more like the following: function hello_if_unlocked(unlocked) {     if (unlocked >1) {document.write("hello");} } function addigit() {     unlockproperty = unlockproperty + 1;     hello_if_unlocked(unlockproperty); }

The if statement is fine. There's nothing wrong with it. The problem you're running into concerns when the browser even checks the if statement at all. Right now, it checks it once, as soon as the code is loaded, and then forgets about it. When the function addigit() is called, it increments unlockproperty as expected, but the browser doesn't go back and check that if statement because it was never told to. There are a number of ways to get around this, depending on what precise behavior you want. One simple way would be to put the if statement inside its own function, and then call that function from inside addigit() after incrementing unlockproperty. On the other hand, you could try implementing something made of event handlers or timers.