I just finished documentation on a new plugin I think might help you
in this situation. Check out: http://eric.garside.name/docs.html?p=replicator
On Apr 13, 11:04 pm, Brain Lava <nic...@brainlava.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone! You've definitely made some great points for me to
> consider. I'm really new to scripting (normally I can find plugins to
> do what I want) and you're probably right that there is a much easier
> solution to what I'm trying to achieve.
>
> I'm going to take your suggestions and see what I can figure out on my
> own. If I can achieve the effect I'm desiring I'll post the end
> result for some feedback.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Apr 9, 5:54 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Since you're not using the class for styling, but indexing, why not
> > just use the natural index of the div in its container, or from the
> > jQuery object itself?
>
> > $('.ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box') is an array-like object, so you can
> > iterate over it, or access its members by index number, such as $
> > ('.ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box').get(8).
>
> > If you're building a carousel, adding incremental numbers to the
> > classname to drive the carousel seems overkill.
>
> > On Apr 9, 11:54 am, Brain Lava <nic...@brainlava.com> wrote:
>
> > > Normally I would agree with you but the effect I'm trying to achieve
> > > is based on the location of the image in the grid and not tied to the
> > > image itself. I don't want the end user to have to update the CSS
> > > every time they move an image or add a new one to their gallery. This
> > > seemed like the best way to achieve my end result.
>
> > > On Apr 9, 9:37 am, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > That seems like you're fighting against the convention. Why create a
> > > > zillion classes when these same divs already have an incremented ID?
> > > > (The ID being the proper place to do this sort of thin, in the 1st
> > > > place)
>
> > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Brain Lava <nic...@brainlava.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > I'm really new to jQuery and have been struggling with a concept that
> > > > > I would think is pretty simple but I can't seem to find anything
> > > > > online that does what I need.
>
> > > > > I'm using NextGen Gallery for Wordpress and I would like to assign an
> > > > > incremental class to each div that the gallery outputs. For example
> > > > > the gallery gives me the following code:
>
> > > > > <div id="ngg-gallery-1" class="ngg-galleryoverview">
> > > > > <div id="ngg-image-99" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box"></div>
> > > > > <div id="ngg-image-55" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box"></div>
> > > > > <div id="ngg-image-95" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box"></div>
> > > > > </div>
>
> > > > > What I would like to do is replace the append class of the interior
> > > > > divs with a number that automatically increments by 1:
> > > > > <div id="ngg-gallery-1" class="ngg-galleryoverview">
> > > > > <div id="ngg-image-99" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box-1"></div>
> > > > > <div id="ngg-image-55" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box-2"></div>
> > > > > <div id="ngg-image-95" class="ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box-3"></div>
> > > > > </div>
>
> > > > > I've seen this done in carousel scripts but I can't seem to figure out
> > > > > how they do it.
>
> > > > > Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
