Question

As the title says, i try to add a jquery hover effect to different a-tags within a for loop. The hover-effects are added but the hide-show-functionality inside seems to be wrong. i always get the selector for the last li-element.

Any help would be great.

http://jsfiddle.net/pGgeW/1/

here’s the code:

html:

<a id="o1" href="#">Show Text 1</a>
<a id="o2" href="#">Show Text 2</a>
<a id="o3" href="#">Show Text 3</a>
<a id="o4" href="#">Show Text 4</a>
<a id="o5" href="#">Show Text 5</a>

<ul class="subTxt">
    <li id="u1">Text 1</li>
    <li id="u2">Text 2</li>
    <li id="u3">Text 3</li>
    <li id="u4">Text 4</li>
    <li id="u5">Text 5</li>
</ul>

javascript:

/* Hide li's */
$("ul.subTxt").find("li").each(

function() {
    $(this).hide();
});

/* Add Hover-Events */
for (var a = 1; a < 6; a++) {
    var k = '#o' + a;
    var e = '#u' + a;
    $(k).hover(

    function() {
        $(e).show();
        $(this).append('<div id="hk" style="position: relative;float: right;">' + k + ' ' + e + '</div>');
    }, function() {
        $(e).hide();
        $(this).find('#hk').remove();
    });
}

Answer 1

You can simplify it to this:

/* Hide li's */
$("ul.subTxt li").hide();

$("a.hover").hover(function(){
    var n = this.id.replace("o","");
    $("#u"+n).show();
}, function() {
    var n = this.id.replace("o","");
    $("#u"+n).hide();
});

http://jsfiddle.net/petersendidit/pGgeW/3/