The following code
  $(document).ready(function(){
    sessionStorage.test = false;  
    alert( sessionStorage.test );
    if ( sessionStorage.test ) {
      alert("I dont care about your conditions!");
    }
  });
produces the following popups:
false
I dont care about your conditions!
even though sessionStorage.test is clearly set to false. Why is that the case? According to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/17986241/2311074, this should work. What am I doing wrong? I am using XAMPP - does it maybe have problems with sessionStorage? Here is the complete code of my test file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Test</title>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script >
      $(document).ready(function(){
        sessionStorage.test = false;    
        if ( sessionStorage.test ) {
          alert("I dont care about your conditions!");
        }
      });
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- page content -->
  </body>
</html>
                The default getter/setter for sessionsStorage are:
sessionStorage.setItem('keyName', 'value');    
sessionStorage.getItem('keyName')
So, for example:
sessionStorage.setItem('test',false);    
if (sessionStorage.getItem('test') != "false") {
   ..........
}
Duplicate Topics: 
 - sessionStorage setItem returns true or false
 - sessionStorage isn't working as expected
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