Question

I have a bunch of views: .view-1, .view-2, view-3, etc… I was using something hacky like this to get the right view showing when the right item in the navigation was clicked:

$(".contact a").click(function() {
    $(".view-1").hide();
    $(".view-2").hide();
    $(".view-3").hide();
    $(".view-4").hide();
    $(".view-5").hide();
    $(".view-6").show();
    return false; 
});

But this is difficult to maintain over a bunch of nav item and ever more views.

I’d like to do something like this:

 var $allViews = $(".view-1,.view-2");
    $(".how").click(function() {
        $(allViews).hide();
        $(".view-2").show(); 
        return false; 
    });

Where I could assign all the view classes

Answer 1

How about :

var $allViews = $("[class|='view']")

Gets all elements with classes equal to ‘view’ or starting with ‘view’ followed by a hyphen

Or:

var $allViews = $("[class^='view-']")

Gets all elements with classes that start with ‘view-`

$allViews.hide() would hide all of those elements.

Example here: http://jsfiddle.net/Af9M3/