Question

I am building a theme selector for maps and want to reflect the currently selected theme.

The code seems to work but never returns the value of the “li” item, it always returns “s-thumbs” for whatever “li” item I click on. I tried using the .closest() method but to no avail.

I’m following this article.

    <script language="javascript">
    $("ul.s-thumbs").live("click", function(event) {
      $("#theme_title").text(
          $(this).closest("ul.s-thumbs li").attr("class")
        );
     });
    </script>


    <div id="theme">You have selected the <div id="theme_title"></div> Theme</div>
        <div class="container_16" id="themebg">
        <!--<div class="grid_1"> <a href="" "img" src="/styles/image/leftarrow.png" id="leftarrow" alt=""/></div>-->
        <div class="grid_16 slider-wrapper">
        <ul class="s-thumbs">
                    <li class="Default"> <a href="javascript:setRoadmap()"><img src="/styles/image/thumbs/default.png" alt="" /></a>Default</li>
                    <li class="Hatchery"> <a href="javascript:setGreen()"><img src="/styles/image/thumbs/hatchery.png" alt="" /></a>Hatchery</li>
</ul>
</div>

Answer 1

$('ul.s-thumbs li').on('click', function(){
  var getClass = $(this).attr('class');
  $("#theme_title").text(getClass);
});

Demo link: http://jsfiddle.net/ChaseWest/w2tCE/4/