Question

var currentImageBox;    
$('.newImage').bind('click', function() {

        currentImageBox = this;
        currentImageBox.unbind('click');
    });

Im trying to set currentImageBox to the div that was clicked (a number of divs on the page have the newImage class). But to no avail, where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

The code is correct, the this is the element clicked. But to use unbind, you need to wrap the element with jQuery since this (and therefore currentImageBox) is the DOM element and not a jQuery object.

$(currentImageBox).unbind('click');