Well, to solve the problem of repetition, use bind, so...(this may not
be verbatim)
function doit(event) {
$(event.data.var1).siblings('li.navSel').removeClass('navSel');
$(event.data.var2).slideFadeToggle('normal');
$(this).toggleClass('navSel');
$(event.data.var2).siblings('div:visible').slideUp('fast');
return false;
});
$(....).bind('click', {var1:'id1', var2:'id2'} doit);
you could probably even make a generic function and do a string
replace... this.id.replace('nav', 'links') but that doesn't look too
clean...
In terms of finding 'partial' matches, you can use the attribute
selector functions (look documentation:selectors), these are things
like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
not sure what you mean by 'not in use' but don't forget you can store
values on dom nodes (var el = document.getElementbyId('somenode');
el.inuse = 'true';) or you can use something like a 'selected' class,
and hasClass().
