Question

i have this jquery problems i have had for days, im so new to this, so excuse my dumbness in this subject. thanks :))

html code:

<ul class="statuses">
<li id="set_23" class="message">
  // this is meant to increase everytime you click the vote_up just like stackoverflow 
  <span class="vote_count">27</span>
  <a href="#" class="vote_up"><img src="img/uparrow.png" /></a>
  <a href="#" class="vote_down"><img src="img/downarrow.png" /></a>

 </li>

</ul>

this is my jquery code:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#statuses').delegate('.vote_up', 'click', function() {
       //get the id
        var the_id = $(this).closest('.message').attr('id').split('_').pop();
        //the main ajax request
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            data: "action=vote_up&id=" + the_id,
            url: "ajax/votes.php",
            success: function (msg) {
                  // fade in the new vote_count
                $(this).siblings("span.vote_count").html(msg).fadeIn();
                  // get the child <img> and set its src
                $(this).children("img").attr("src", "img/uparrowActive.png");
            }
        });
    });

});

EDIT: also the jquery fade.in and change of image src is not working, am i referencing the right span or class(the ajax request is working now)

Answer 1

First thing to jump-out:

<ul class="statuses"> 

and

$('#statuses')

… the # symbol in jQuery is the id-selector (same as CSS). Since your <ul> is set to class="statuses" then you’ll need to use the class-selector:

$('.statuses')

That alone will break all your jQuery