Question

This is going to be difficult for me to explain, so I’ll do my best. Heres this code:

$('#navibar a').hover(function(){
    var position = $(this).position(); 
    var width = $(this).width();
    $('#underliner').css({'width': '' + width + '','left': position.left});
    //$('#underliner').show("slide", { direction: "left" }, 100);
    $('#underliner').stop().animate({opacity: 1}, 30).show();
}, function () {
    var homePos = $(this).find(attr(activePageHref)).position();
    var homeWidth = $(this).find(attr(activePageHref)).width();
    //$('#underliner').css({'width': '' + homeWidth + '','left': homePos.left});
    //$('#underliner').show("slide", { direction: "left" }, 100);
    //$('#underliner').stop().animate({opacity: 1}, 30).show();
    alert(activePageHref);
});

activePageHref is set outside this as the page that has been clicked on. On the alert, it is showing correctly (for examples, lets just say its value is “home”. I need to somehow set the #underliner.css position and width to the page link in the navigation that is selected on hover out, so is there a way to “find” other ‘a’s and use them? Hopefully in the code it’s obvious what I was trying to do. This is my markup:

<ul id="navibar">
            <li><a href="home">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="products">Products</a></li>
            <li><a href="games">Games</a></li>
            <li><a href="store">Store</a></li>
            <li><a href="support">Support</a></li>
            <li><a href="community">Community</a></li>
        </ul>

Also, I know the first block of code is BIG TIME wrong, that was just the last thing I did out of aggrevation and desperation before I decided to post on here.

Answer 1

Use the attribute selector to find the link with the href as activePageHref

$('#navibar a').hover(function(){
    var position = $(this).position(); 
    var width = $(this).width();
    $('#underliner').css({'width': '' + width + '','left': position.left});
    //$('#underliner').show("slide", { direction: "left" }, 100);
    $('#underliner').stop().animate({opacity: 1}, 30).show();
}, function () {
    var homePos = $(this).parents('#navibar').find('a[href="'+activePageHref+'"]').position();
    var homeWidth = $(this).parents('#navibar').find('a[href="'+activePageHref+'"]').width();
    //$('#underliner').css({'width': '' + homeWidth + '','left': homePos.left});
    //$('#underliner').show("slide", { direction: "left" }, 100);
    //$('#underliner').stop().animate({opacity: 1}, 30).show();
    alert(activePageHref);
});