Question

Ok so I have this function that when a contact is clicked it adds a class to the user

 $(".contactlink").live("click",function(e){
            if(lastclicked == $(this).attr('href'))
            {
            return false;   
            }
            contactinfo = lastclicked.split('/');
            alert(lastclicked);

            lastclicked = $(this).attr('href');
            contactinfo = $(this).attr('href').split("/");
            $("#friend_"+contactinfo[2]).addClass('active');
            loadcontactinfo(contactinfo[2]);
            //alert( contactinfo[2] );
            return false;                                   
        }); 

All is working fine, but this part of the function seems not to be saving it self to the jquery.

contactinfo = lastclicked.split('/');
alert(lastclicked);

cos when I do lastclicked it does not alert me what the href link which was click was last.

Answer 1

You should make sure that you are declaring variables with var in the proper scope. Try something like:

// declare lastclicked before created your click function
var lastclicked = '';
$(".contactlink").live("click",function(e){
    if(lastclicked == $(this).attr('href')) {
       return false;   
    }
    alert(lastclicked);
    // use var for local variables
    var contactinfo = $(this).attr('href').split("/");
    lastclicked = $(this).attr('href');

    $("#friend_"+contactinfo[2]).addClass('active');
    loadcontactinfo(contactinfo[2]);
    //alert( contactinfo[2] );
    return false;                                   
}); 

For a simplified example see this jsfiddle