I guess I'm still not getting "else" out of this. I thought I had it
figured out
I think what's confusing to me as a n00b is that "if" does not seem to
be closed. How would I accomplish an else condition?
On Aug 3, 11:27 am, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pete wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a link that when clicked will produce an alert if
> > there are any visible divs (all .detail divs are hidden by default).
> > I have the following function but it doesn't seem I'm doing it
> > correctly; nothing happens regardless of the visibility status of the
> > divs.
>
> > $("a.saveConfig").click(function() {
> > $('div.detail').is(':visible'), (function () {
> > alert('Hey this works');
>
> > });
> > });
>
> > Is there a better way to do an if statement using JQuery selectors or
> > is there something I'm missing in my code?
>
> The good thing about jQuery is that it has that if staterment kind of
> built-in. If the selector doesn't match anything all the subsequently
> chained functions are not executed. This only works with jQuery methods
> of course but not with an alert like in your example:
>
> $('div.detail:visible').append('I'm visible');
>
> The string is appended only if div.detail is visible.
>
> If you need to execute a non jQuery function you can still use the
> each() method to avoid an if statement:
>
> $('div.detail:visible').each(function() {
> alert('Hey this works');
>
> });
>
> --Klaus
