Making text singular or plural based on variable length

Question

I am trying to make text singular or plural based on the value of templateCount. If templateCount's value is 1 then I just want 'Template' to say that, but if templateCount is plural, I want it to say 'Templates Selected'.

What am I doing wrong with my code?

$('#templateCount').html(templateCount + " Templates Selected" + templateCount.length == 1 ? "" : "s");

Answer 1

Are you sure you thought this through? You have the string "Templates selected" there and you are conditionally appending s to the end of that (which would make it "Templates Selecteds").

Do this:

$('#templateCount').html(templateCount + 
    " Template" + 
    (templateCount === 1 ? "" : "s") +
    " Selected");