Question

Why doesn’t this work? What would be a plausible solution to get this effect?

$(document).ready(function() {

  $('#myLink1').click(
    function() { 
      $('#myLink1').replaceWith('<a id="myLink2" href="#panel2">#panel2</a>');
    });

  $('#myLink2').click(
    function() { 
      $('#myLink2').replaceWith('<a id="myLink3" href="#panel3">#panel3</a>');
    });

});

I’m new to loops and how I’m supposed to add strings and variables.

$(document).ready(function() {
  var panelNum = 8;
  for (i=1;i<=panelNum;i++){
    $('#myLink'+i).click(function() { 
      $('#myLink'+i).replaceWith('<a id="myLink'+(i+1)+'" href="#panel'+(i+1)+'">#panel'+(i+1)+'</a>');
    });
  };
});

Answer 1

The problem is myLink2 doesn’t exist until mylink is clicked. You have to add the mylink2 handler after it is created. Try the following:

function add_replace_with(i){
 $('#myLink'+i).click(
    function() {
     do_replace_with(i)
          return false;
    });
}
     function do_replace_with(i){
       $('#myLink'+i).replaceWith('<a id="myLink'+(i+1)+'" href="#panel'+(i+1)+'">#panel'+(i+1)+'</a>');

     $('#myLink'+(i+1)).click(
      function() {
        do_replace_with(i+1)
      });   
     }

$(document).ready(function() {
 add_replace_with(1);
});

I should note, that you might be better of hard-coding the links and just using .show() to toggle them.