Hello super programmers! Once again I seek your help....

I want to use .asp classic to create an if statement for my graphics....

I have a MySQL database running. I have a field called "masthead". This field holds the name of my images. I need an if stement to check if a name exists. if not, then use the hardcoded image. see my code as what I am trying to achieve... This page gets called in by a simple query string from a hyperlink.

<%
  masthead = Rs("masthead")

  If masthead ="" then %>

        <img src='product_images/masthead_homepage.jpg' border="0">
            <% else%>
<img src='product_images/<%=Rs("masthead")%>' width="760" height="63" border="0">
<% end if %>

any ideas??? It just doesnt work.

How doesnt it work?

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It is displaying the image that is outside of the else statement, in which the image would be missing because I have a blank field in the database.

It seems the "if" statement is being ignored.... do I have the if statement correct?

My guess is that masthead doesn't really equal an empty string like you are expecting, have you tried using Trim(masthead)?

Edit:
What I mean is:

If Trim(masthead) = "" Then
'Do Something
Else
'Do Something else
End If
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