Question

My intention

When i hover over a li on #featuredThumbs li I want to swap the div under #productText

How can I accomplish this? I want to add a active state to both the li and div. I also want it to automatically start when the page loads.

Here is my jsFiddle File

JS

 $("#featuredThumbs li").hover( function() {
          $(".active").removeClass("active");
          $(this).addClass("active");
});​

HTML

<div id="container">
  <h2>Lorem ipsum!</h2>
  <div id="featuredProducts">
    <div id="productText">
      <div id="autoText" class="products">
        <h3>Auto Insurance</h3>
        <p>orem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea</p>
      </div>
      <!-- eo : products -->
      <div id="homeText" class="products">
        <h3>Auto Insurance</h3>
        <p>orem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea</p>
      </div>
      <!-- eo : products -->
      <div id="commercialText" class="products">
        <h3>Auto Insurance</h3>
        <p>orem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea</p>
      </div>
      <!-- eo : products -->
      <div id="lifeText" class="products">
        <h3>Auto Insurance</h3>
        <p>orem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea</p>
      </div>
      <!-- eo : products -->

    </div>
    <!-- eo: productText -->
    <ul id="featuredThumbs">
      <li id="autoProd"></li>
      <li id="homeProd"></li>
      <li id="commercialProd"></li>
      <li id="lifeProd"></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
  <!-- eo : featuredProducts -->

</div>
​

Answer 1

I think, this may help you:

CSS:

.products { display:none; }
.products.active { display:block; }

JS:

$("#featuredThumbs li").hover( function() {
    $(".active").removeClass("active");
    var textid = this.id.replace("Prod", "Text");
    $(this).addClass("active");
    $("#" + textid).addClass("active");
});​

This works as long as the id of the li elements ends in ‘Prod’ and the matching text ends in ‘Text’. I also added the class active to the first div.

http://jsfiddle.net/KfEuL/