[jQuery] Registering the value of variable instead of the variable itself in a loop

[Ozberk]

Hello,

I'm new to jQuery and I am currently working on google gadget which
has some animations.
I have wrote the jQuery code and manage to make it work:

$('#itemn').click(function() {
        if ($("#tabcontentn").is(":hidden")) {
                if(active == "init") {
                        $("#tabcontentn").slideDown(300);
                        active = "#tabcontentn";
                } else {
                        $(active).slideUp(300, function() {
                                $("#tabncontent").slideDown(300);
                                active = "#tabcontentn";
                        });
                }
        } else {
                $("#tabcontentn").slideUp(300);
        }
}

The problem has arisen after I decided to create a single for loop
instead of binding all elements one by one. Although I managed to get
it work with some workaround I'm not happy with the result:

for(var i = 1; i < 6;i ++) {
        item = '#item'+i;
        $(item).click(function() {
                alert(vts(this));
                if ($(vts(this)).is(":hidden")) {
                        if(active == "init") {
                                $(vts(this)).slideDown(300);
                                active = vts(this);
                        } else {
                                that = vts(this);
                                $(active).slideUp(300, function() {
                                        $(that).slideDown(300);
                                        active = that;
                                });
                        }
                } else {
                        $(vts(this)).slideUp(300);
                        active = 'init';
                }
        });
}


function vts(e) {
        var t;
        t = e.id;
        t = t.replace(/item/ig, '');
        t = '#tabcontent'+t;
        return t;
}

what I really want is creating some kind of code like this:

for(var i = 1; i < 6; i++) {

var item = '#item'+i;
var element = '#tabcontent'+i;
$(item).click(function() {
        if ($(element).is(":hidden")) {
                if(active == "init") {
                        $(element).slideDown(300);
                        active = element;
                } else {
                        $(active).slideUp(300, function() {
                                $(element).slideDown(300);
                                active = element;
                        });
                }
        } else {
                $(element).slideUp(300);
        }
}

}

The problem with the above code is the $(element) stays as the last
element (#tabcontent5). I need to find a way to register that element
variable as a static value instead of the variable itself.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ozberk