Question

I have been struggling with a problem for a while now. I’ve made a simple html gallery using CSS and a # href to essentially swap out different div ID’s containing gallery images. The problem is that when you select the “next” or “previous” buttons in the gallery it jumps the page up in the browser so the gallery is aligned at the top of the page. Does anybody have any ideas how to prevent this?

Here is what the code for the gallery looks like:

<div id="pic1">
<img src="click/pic1.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic10"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic2"><b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic2">
<img src="click/pic2.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic1"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic3"> <b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic3">
<img src="click/pic3.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic2"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic4"><b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic4">
<img src="click/pic4.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic3"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic5">  <b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic5">
<img src="click/pic5.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic4"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic6"><b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic6">
<img src="click/pic6.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic5"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic7"><b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic7">
<img src="click/pic7.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic6"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic8"><b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic8">
<img src="click/pic8.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic7"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic9"><b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic9">
<img src="click/pic9.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic8"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic10"><b>Next</b></a>
</div>
<div id="pic10">
<img src="click/pic10.jpg" alt="" />
<a class="previous" href="#pic9"><b>Previous</b></a><a class="next" href="#pic1">  <b>Next</b></a>
</div>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You will need to use JQuery after you set

<a class="previous" href="javascript:void(0);">Next</a>

then call the JS:

$(document).ready(function(){

    $('a.previous').click(function(e){
        var picID= parseInt($(this).parent().attr("id").substr(3));//gets the pic id count
        $("#pic"+(picID)).hide(); //hide the current div
        $("#pic"+(picID-1)).show(); //show the previous div
    });

    $('a.next').click(function(e){
        var picID= parseInt($(this).parent().attr("id").substr(3)); //gets the pic id count
        $("#pic"+(picID)).hide(); //hide the current div
        $("#pic"+(picID+1)).show(); //show the previous div
    });

});

see: http://jsfiddle.net/uZ6g5/