Question

I want to insert different url’s dynamically after checking a condition

Here’s the pseudocode

If div.id = "abc" then
create url <a href="www.zzz.html"'>Cosmetics</a>');
Append url to div

else if div.id = "xyz" then
create url <a href="www.abc.html"'>LEather goods</a>');
Append url to div

else if div.id = "mno" then
create url <a href="www.kkk.html"'>Diapers</a>');
Append url to div

and so on.

How can I write this in JavaScript/jQUery. How to handle the code efficiently if there are 15 such If-Else conditions.

This code is not looking good

if $("#abc) then

 var dynLink = $('<a href=zzz.html"'>Cosmetics</a>');
    $("#abc").append(dynLink);

else if $("#xyz")
 var dynLink = $('<a href=abc.html"'>LEather</a>');
    $("#xyz").append(dynLink);

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could try this:

var link = [
    ["#abc", "#wfh", "http://www.123.com", "Maine"],
    ["#123", "#qwe", "http://www.abc.com", "Texas"]
];

$.each(link, function(e) {
    $(link[e][0] + "," + link[e][1])
        .append("<a href='" + link[e][2] + "'>" + link[e][3] + "</a>");
});​

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Yvuvh/5/

---

This is just simply setting up the links and titles in the array, and a for loop is searching through the array to see if it can find a div with any of those id‘s, and if so, then append the appropriate link.

To add more, just add another array to the link array, like so:

var link = [
    ["#abc", "#wfh", "http://www.123.com", "Maine" ],
    ["#123", "#qwe", "http://www.abc.com", "Texas" ],
    ["#xyz", "#zyx", "http://www.yzx.com", "Mexico"]
];​