Question

I’m using jquery for my site, I have a list of variables that need to be called once a button is pressed. Basically, I need to determine the variable from the class name! 🙁

For example: http://jsfiddle.net/shannonhochkins/f6dLQ/

So it returns the class name of “website”, which also is the variable “website” but i need to then somehow determine make it equal the variable not the string “website”?

Please help!

Answer 1

If you declare the variable in the global scope i.e. not in any function, it will be a property of the window object, and can be easily retrieved

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('body a').click(function() {
        var name = $(this).attr('class');
        alert(window[name]);
    });
});    

var website = "http://journal.shannonhochkins.com/";

http://jsfiddle.net/f6dLQ/3/