What's the advantage of assigning the identifier to the class? Like,
how are you using it once you create the classes. I'm assuming there's
an easier solution, especially if you're doing it dynamically.

On Apr 9, 2:54 pm, Brain Lava <nic...@brainlava.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ralph!  I'll give that a try :)
>
> On Apr 9, 10:13 am, Ralph Whitbeck <ralph.whitb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You can use .each to iterate through each div element and increment the
> > classname or ID via it's index.
>
> > $("div").each(function(i) {
> >     $(this).addClass("classname" + i);
>
> > });
>
> >http://docs.jquery.com/Core/each
>
> > HTH
> > Ralph
>
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:37 AM, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > That seems like you're fighting against the convention. Why create a
> > > zillion classes when these same divs already have an incremented ID?
> > > (The ID being the proper place to do this sort of thin, in the 1st
> > > place)
>
> > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Brain Lava <nic...@brainlava.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I'm really new to jQuery and have been struggling with a concept that
> > > > I would think is pretty simple but I can't seem to find anything
> > > > online that does what I need.
>
> > > > I'm using NextGen Gallery for Wordpress and I would like to assign an
> > > > incremental class to each div that the gallery outputs.  For example
> > > > the gallery gives me the following code:
>
> > > > <div id="ngg-gallery-1" class="ngg-galleryoverview">
> > > >   <div id="ngg-image-99" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box"></div>
> > > >   <div id="ngg-image-55" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box"></div>
> > > >   <div id="ngg-image-95" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box"></div>
> > > > </div>
>
> > > > What I would like to do is replace the append class of the interior
> > > > divs with a number that automatically increments by 1:
> > > > <div id="ngg-gallery-1" class="ngg-galleryoverview">
> > > >   <div id="ngg-image-99" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box-1"></div>
> > > >   <div id="ngg-image-55" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box-2"></div>
> > > >   <div id="ngg-image-95" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box-3"></div>
> > > > </div>
>
> > > > I've seen this done in carousel scripts but I can't seem to figure out
> > > > how they do it.
>
> > > > Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

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