Question

I can’t seem to get this to work in jquery. I am using this code as an alternative to having to define each button, however this does not work :/

http://jsfiddle.net/pufamuf/FV4jW/1/

Also, I was wondering if/how I can use more than one statement for each case. Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

You need to add a break after each case in your switch statement. Updated JSFiddle here.

From Wikipedia:

break; is optional; however, it is usually needed, since otherwise code execution will continue to the body of the next case block.

Add a break statement to the end of the last case as a precautionary measure, in case additional cases are added later.

Updated Javascript:

 $("input[type='button']").click(function() {
   switch(this.id) {
     case 'buttonone': $("#content").html("Content changed"); break; //notice BREAK
     case 'buttontwo': $("#content").html("Content changed again"); break;
   }
 });