[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread osu
You're a dude, thank you. I agree that it would be better server-side, but it would involve hacking the core and I'm against that kind of thing, particularly for something that is purely to satisfy a designer's poncy preference. Thanks for your help. osu On Sep 29, 11:54 am, Liam Potter w

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread Liam Potter
oh I see, this would be better done with some server side code but this is how you could do that. Similar code, just checking for a class. $("li a.nav-selected").each(function(){ $(this).parents("ul").parents("li").children("a").addClass("nav-selected"); }); osu wrote: Hi Liam, Thanks

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread osu
Hi Liam, Thanks, I think I didn't make myself clear enough - rather than occurring when you click the link, I need the class to stay in place whenever a child link (i.e. Link 3a, 3b or 3c) is active. I can see the class is being applied on click, but how would I make the class stay in place? Like

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread Liam Potter
It all works fine, except for this bit $("li ul").siblings("a").click(function(){ return false; }); there are no a tag siblings of the UL, so that will not work. I've just tested it, and when I click on a subnav link, the class is added to the LI containing Link 3, if

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread osu
Hi Liam, This is the list I'm working with: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 3a Link 3b Link 3c Link 4 I need to add the class 'nav-selected' to Link 3 so I can highlight it using the same CSS as used to style Link 3a (the ac

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread Liam Potter
I'm assuming you posted an example list and the real list does contain a tags? I'm also assuming you are running that script with a document ready handler? osu wrote: Thanks Liam, but that's not working... Not sure why .click is in your example? Am I right in thinking by adding .parents to

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread osu
Thanks Liam, but that's not working... Not sure why .click is in your example? Am I right in thinking by adding .parents to the end of each tag in your example that you're 'going down' different levels in the unordered list? This is what I have: $("li a").click(function(){ $(this).paren

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread Liam Potter
$("li a").click(function(){ $(this).parents("ul").parents("li").addClass("className"); }); osu wrote: Hi Ryan, That only affects the child of the parent. What I want to do is this: Link 1 Link 2 *This is the link I want to add a class to* Link 2a Link 2b *This is the active link*

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-29 Thread osu
Hi Ryan, That only affects the child of the parent. What I want to do is this: Link 1 Link 2 *This is the link I want to add a class to* Link 2a Link 2b *This is the active link* Link 2c Link 3 Rather than affecting a descendent/child of the parent link, I need to work on the *

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-26 Thread ryan.j
$('.nav-selected:first') On Sep 26, 5:36 pm, osu wrote: > Can anyone help with this one please? > > Thanks, > > osu > > On Sep 25, 2:03 pm, osu wrote: > > > Thanks Ryan for the alternative, > > > However, I need to do the following now (see message above your last > > post): > > > I need to hig

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-26 Thread osu
Can anyone help with this one please? Thanks, osu On Sep 25, 2:03 pm, osu wrote: > Thanks Ryan for the alternative, > > However, I need to do the following now (see message above your last > post): > > I need to highlight *only* the top-parentitem (the same one I just > ran 'return false;' o

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-25 Thread osu
Thanks Ryan for the alternative, However, I need to do the following now (see message above your last post): I need to highlight *only* the top-parent item (the same one I just ran 'return false;' on) with the class 'nav-selected'. Any idea how I could do that? Thanks, osu On Sep 25, 11:1

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-25 Thread ryan.j
rather than removing the href you could use the preventDefault function, which will leave the href intact should you want to unbind it at a later date. usage is something like.. $('a.submit-button').click(function(e){ e.preventDefault(); doSubmit( $(this).html() ); }) On Sep 24,

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-25 Thread osu
Anyone? Thanks osu On Sep 24, 9:26 pm, osu wrote: > Ok, I have another question that's related to the first. > > I need to highlight *only* the top-parent item (the same one I just > ran 'return false;' on) with the class 'nav-selected'. > > This is the code that's being generated by the CMS I

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-24 Thread osu
Ok, I have another question that's related to the first. I need to highlight *only* the top-parent item (the same one I just ran 'return false;' on) with the class 'nav-selected'. This is the code that's being generated by the CMS I'm working with when I click on Link 3a: Link 1 Link 2

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-24 Thread osu
That's perfect, thanks for that - the second example works a treat. osu On Sep 24, 7:10 pm, Andi23 wrote: > In that case, you can just remove the href attribute of the link(s): > $("li ul").siblings("a").removeAttr("href"); > > or, if you want to leave in the href attribute for future use?, yo

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-24 Thread Andi23
In that case, you can just remove the href attribute of the link(s): $("li ul").siblings("a").removeAttr("href"); or, if you want to leave in the href attribute for future use?, you can do this: $("li ul").siblings("a").click(function(){ return false; }); good luck-

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-24 Thread osu
Thanks Andi, Yes, I meant an unordered list as you showed. Rather than remove the tag, is it possible to just 'deactivate' it? i.e. when you click it, nothing happens, but the tag stays in place? I ask, because I'd like to keep the CSS as simple as possible. Thanks, osu On Sep 24, 6:05 pm

[jQuery] Re: Deactivating parent link with JQuery

2009-09-24 Thread Andi23
First of all, let's clarify the actual HTML. I assume this is what you have: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 3a Link 3b Link 3c Link 4 When you say "remove the link", I assume you want to turn this: Link 3 into this: Link 3