Question

Here is the FIDDLE you can fork and work on

Given a list of

<a href="#" class="iconList" id="myDoc_aaa">...</a>
<a href="#" class="iconListChecked" id="myDoc_bbb">...</a>
<a href="#" class="iconList" id="myDoc_ccc">...</a>

I want to assign the * key to trigger click on each link in turn and ctrl-* to trigger click on all. I do not want to toggle the class, since there is a script that needs to run when the link is clicked

QUESTION: Can you help me with the selectors and what else (data attribute?) to loop over the links one at a time on * and all at once on ctrl-star

So when you

hit *, the first link is triggered (and the script changes the class to iconListChecked),

hit * star again and the second link is triggered (unchecking it),

hit * and the third is triggered,

hit * and we wrap and the first is triggered (unchecking it)

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hit ctrl-star and all not-checked links are triggered

FIXED: $(".iconList").trigger("click");

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(My fiddle currently only handles the * on the numeric keyboard – I have a separate question for that here)

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/GtXMW/28/

// ... removed unedited part..

// Function to handle *
function toggleFirst() {
    var $candidates = $('.iconList,.iconListChecked');
    var $nottoggled = $candidates.not('.rw_toggled').first();
    if (!$nottoggled.length) {
        // There is no non-toggled element any more.
        // Remove class from all links
        $candidates.removeClass('rw_toggled');
        $nottoggled = $candidates.first();
    }
    // Add temporary class, trigger click
    $nottoggled.addClass('rw_toggled').click();
    console.log("*");
}
// Function to handle ctrl+*
function toggleAll() {
    console.log("ctrl+*");
    $(".iconList").click();
}    
$(document).ready(function() {
    // Handle Ctrl+* and * 
    $(document).keypress(function(e) {
        var $this = $(this);
        if (e.which === 42) { // '*'.charCodeAt(0) === 42
            if (!$this.data('rw_star_pressed')) {
                $this.data('rw_star_pressed', true);
                if (e.ctrlKey) { // Ctrl + *
                    toggleAll();
                } else {             // Just *
                    toggleFirst();
                }
            }
        }
    }).keyup(function() {
        $(this).removeData('rw_star_pressed');
    });

    // ... rest of your original code...
});