I have a form with the following (there are about 20 of these; you can assume that the id value goes up to 706):
<input id="686" class="add_image" type="button" value="add image"/> add image 2 and beneath it would like to have a form element that is normally hidden: <div class="add_image_content 686" >hello in add_image_content</div> Basically, I'd like to be able to access the e.targed.id and then use it in a selector to select div's that have 'add_image_content' and the associated id value. My javascript is: $(document).ready(function(){ $('.add_image_content').hide(); $('.add_image').bind('click',function(e){ //alert(e.target.id); var $val=e.target.id; $(div:contains($val)).show(); //didn't work //$('.add_image_content' + e.target.id).show(); //$(e.target.id).show(); }); }); thanks for any help, jt