Question

I have a popover that lists various playlists a user has. On click, I am trying to get the video_id associated with the video to be added to the appropriate playlist. I’m not sure how to implement this; the user clicks on the link in the popover, the video_id (from the div #add) and the playlist selected (there are multiple playlists that the user generates names for but only one is selected) is supposed to be extracted. Any advice?

    <script type="text/javascript">
   $(document).ready(function() {
       $("#muncher").click(function(event){
       event.preventDefault();
            $.ajax({
                 type:"POST",
                 url:"/edit_favorites/",
                 data: {
                        'video_add': $('#add').val(), // from form
                        'playlist_selected': $('#').val() //from form
                        },
                 success: function(){

                        $('#muncher').html("Added");


                    }
            });
            return false;
       });

    });
</script>   


<div id = 'muncher'>
    <div id = 'add'>12345</div>
    <a href = "#" id="munch" rel="popover" data-html="true" data-placement="right"  data-content= "<a href= '#'>Favorites</a><br>

                <a href = '#' class = 'Funny'>Funny</a><br>

                <a href = '#' class = 'test'>test</a><br>

                <a href = '#' class = 'test1'>test1</a><br>                     

    " data-original-title="Add to your plate">
            Munch
    </a>    
</div>

Answer 1

Little confused about what exactly sure what you’re trying to do. Is each video a child of playlist? If so, try passing this.id as a parameter in the onClick event…

...click="toPlaylist(this.id)"

function toPlaylist(clicked) {
  var tempVideo = clicked;
  // Get a parent node ID like this...
  var tempList = $(clicked).parentNode.id;
  // Do something else...
  nextAction(tempVideo, tempList);
}

PS: You may have to do something like this

  var tempVideo = '#'+clicked;    

…for the variables, I’m not sure sure.

Hope this was helpful.