Question

Designer learning to code here, not too far along in my js or using jquery. Attempting to get a checkbox filter pretty much the same as this guy: http://jsfiddle.net/BCbeU/ but can’t seem to get it to run like the jsfiddle on the site I’m building.

Here is my html for the checkboxes:

    <div class="tags">
    <label><input type="checkbox" rel="all"/> Show All </label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" rel="one"/> 1 Bedroom </label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" rel="two"/> 2 Bedroom </label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" rel="below"/> Below $1500 </label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" rel="above"/> Above $1500 </label>
</div>

Here is my html for the items I’m trying to filter:

<div id="shelf1-housing">
<ul class="results">
    <li class="all one">
        <a href="html/sessionone.html">
            <div class="box">
                <img src="../images/apartment2.jpg">
                    <h4>3 Bedroom Apartment</h4>
                    <h5>$1500 a month</h5>
            </div>
        </a>
    </li>

    <li class="all below">
        <a href="html/sessionone.html">
            <div class="box">
                <img src="../images/apartment1.jpg">
                    <h4>3 Bedroom Apartment</h4>
                    <h5>$1500 a month</h5>
            </div>
        </a>
    </li>

    <li class="below all">
        <a href="html/sessionone.html">
            <div class="box">
                <img src="../images/apartment2.jpg">
                    <h4>3 Bedroom Apartment</h4>
                    <h5>$1500 a month</h5>
            </div>
        </a>
    </li>

    <li class="all above">
        <a href="html/sessionone.html">
            <div class="box">
                <img src="../images/apartment1.jpg">
                    <h4>3 Bedroom Apartment</h4>
                    <h5>$1500 a month</h5>
            </div>
        </a>
    </li>

    <li class="all">
        <a href="html/sessionone.html">
            <div class="box">
                <img src="../images/apartment2.jpg">
                    <h4>3 Bedroom Apartment</h4>
                    <h5>$1500 a month</h5>
            </div>
        </a>
    </li>

</ul><!--End of Results-->
</div><!--End of Shelf1-Housing-->

And here is the javascript:

$('div.tags').delegate('input:checkbox', 'change', function(){
     var $lis = $('.results > li').hide();
     //For each one checked
     $('input:checked').each(function(){
          $lis.filter('.' + $(this).attr('rel')).show();
     });      
});

Thanks in advance to for the help. Still learning the basics, and they haven’t got me this far yet, soon, but not yet 🙂

Answer 1

I have created fiddle by copying code from your website. Please check http://jsfiddle.net/LXymq/

Following changes made:
1) Added the Li back to a div with class called results. This is how you had it.
<div class="results"> ... All LIs ... </div>

2) Added all your code to $(document).ready function as the code was getting executed before the dom was ready.

$(document).ready(function() { ... all your code inside this .... });

4) Hardcoded the image path for beauty.