find specific number in array for if statement

I know there are alot of questions like this on here but they keep pointing me to using includes and that is not working for me for some reason.

Goal – use an if statement to find out if a number exists in an array. (Don’t care if its jQuery or plan JS)

I tried using includes but that failed:

testdata = [1,256]
testdata.includes(1) #or testdata.includes(256)
\\false

I also tried using indexof but that failed too:

testdata = [1,256]
testdata.indexOf('256') >= 0
\\false

>Solution :

Indeed, it looks like your array [1,256] is the first element of testdata array. In fact, you can see that testdata length is 1.

You should check if testdata[0].includes(1)