I'm getting hung up on something that seems pretty simple, and I think I'm just making rookie syntax mistakes. I have a user dashboard that has a button on it to hide/show one of the panels, and this uses the cookie plugin to remember the user's preference. The cookie plugin provides a variable to use for controlling the display of the panel div, which then just toggles .show() and .hide(). (It returns either "block" or "none").

I want to add a little more to this so that it also changes the text on the toggle button based on whether the panel is hidden or shown. 

Here's what I have - can anybody help me get the result of my if/else to populate the button value? 

Thanks!

2. $(document).ready(function() {
4. // call the cookie class and set a cookie called viewState
5. $.cookie("viewState");
7. // create a variable and set it to the value of the cookie
8. var theState = $.cookie("viewState");
9. 
   
10. // these are the labels for the button
11. var onState = "hide mentor steps";
12. var offState = "show mentor steps";
13. 
    
14. // put the right label on the button initially, based on the returned cookie variable 
15. var btnState = 
16.  if (theState = "block") {
17.  return var onState;
18.  } else {
19.  return var offState;
20. }
21. 
    
22. $("#mentor-switch").val(btnState);
24. // toggle the view state of the mentor steps
25. $("#mentor-switch").toggle(
26. function () {
27. $("#dashboard-row-1").show("slow");
28. // when clicked, set the cookie and variable to block, then change the button label
29. $.cookie("viewState", "block");
30. theState = "block";
31. $("#mentor-switch").val(onState)
32. },
33. function () {
34. $("#dashboard-row-1").hide("slow");
35. // set the cookie and variable to none when clicked again, then change the button label
36. $.cookie("viewState", "none");
37. theState = "none";
38. $("#mentor-switch").val(offState)
39. });
41. // update the hidden panels css to none, or block depending on the toggle event
42. $("#dashboard-row-1").css('display', theState);
43. 
    
44. });