Question

I am working on with three drop-down menus each of which have three options. Together these three drop-down menus create a system that can be in any one of twenty seven states. For each drop-down, there is option 1, option 2, and all (which is the union of option 1 and 2).

Depending on what state these three drop-down menus are in, I want to display or hide different divs. These divs have classes of this form class="distribution-(select-1)-(select-2)-(select-3)"

I am trying to find a DRY way of coding this up without relying on 27 different conditionals.

Here are the drop-down menus:

<div  style = "margin-top:1cm; font-size:125%">
    <strong>Clickout Type&nbsp;</strong>
    <select class = "clickouts" >
        <option value = "all" selected="selected">All</option>
        <option value = "clickouts" >Clickouts</option>
        <option value = "preferred" >Preferred Clickouts</option>
    </select>
    <strong>Graph Type&nbsp;</strong>
    <select class = "graph-type" >
        <option value = "all" selected="selected">All</option>
        <option value = "hist" >Histograms</option>
        <option value = "percent" >Percent</option>
    </select>
    <strong>Roll-up Type&nbsp;</strong>
    <select class = "roll-up" >
        <option value = "all" selected="selected">All</option>
        <option value = "aggregate" >Aggregate</option>
        <option value = "granular" >Granular</option>
    </select>
</div>

Here are some examples of the div classes:
distribution-hist-clickouts-aggregate, distribution-percent-clickouts-aggregate, class="distribution-hist-clickouts-granular", distribution-percent-clickouts-granular

Here is the jquery for the first seven states:

$('.clickouts, .graph-type, .roll-up').change(function(){
    var graph_type = $('.graph-type').val(); 
    var roll_up = $('.roll-up').val();
    var clickouts = $('.clickouts').val(); 

    if (graph_type == 'all' & roll_up == 'all' & clickouts == 'all'){
        $('div[class*="distribution"]').css('display', 'block');
    }
    if (graph_type == 'all' & roll_up == 'all' & clickouts == 'clickouts'){
        $('div[class*="clickout"]').css('display', 'block');
        $('div[class*="preferred"]').css('display', 'none');
    }

    else if (graph_type == 'all' & roll_up == 'all' & clickouts == 'preferred'){
        $('div[class*="clickout"]').css('display', 'none');
        $('div[class*="preferred"]').css('display', 'block');
    }

    else if (graph_type == 'hist' & roll_up == 'all' & clickouts == 'all'){
        $('div[class*="hist"]').css('display', 'block');
        $('div[class*="percent"]').css('display', 'none');
    }

    else if (graph_type == 'percent' & roll_up == 'all' & clickouts == 'all'){
        $('div[class*="hist"]').css('display', 'none');
        $('div[class*="percent"]').css('display', 'block');
    }

    else if (graph_type == 'all' & roll_up == 'aggregate' & clickouts == 'all'){
        $('div[class*="aggregate"]').css('display', 'block');
        $('div[class*="granular"]').css('display', 'none');
    }

    else if (graph_type == 'all' & roll_up == 'granular' & clickouts == 'all'){
        $('div[class*="aggregate"]').css('display', 'none');
        $('div[class*="granular"]').css('display', 'block');
    }
});

Answer 1

If you will change your complex class class="distribution-(select-1)-(select-2)-(select-3) to set of classes class="distribution (select-1) (select-2) (select-3) you can use the following script:

$('.clickouts, .graph-type, .roll-up').change(function(){
    var graph_type = $('.graph-type').val(); 
    var roll_up = $('.roll-up').val();
    var clickouts = $('.clickouts').val(); 

    graph_type = (graph_type == "all" ? "" : "." + graph_type);
    roll_up = (roll_up == "all" ? "" : "." + roll_up);
    clickouts = (clickouts == "all" ? "" : "." + clickouts);

    var selector = '#container div' + graph_type + roll_up + clickouts;

    $('#container div:visible').hide();
    $(selector).show();
});

Code: http://jsfiddle.net/9R5zj/9/