Thanks MorningZ, but does that dolve the problem?
I'd still have to do a .hasClass() for each possible icon, wouldn't I?
On Apr 16, 2:03 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be MUCH easier and cleaner to separate "icon" and "Star/
> PlusLeft/Right/Up/Down", a la:
>
> <div class="button icon Star"></div>
> <div class="button icon Plus"></div>
> <div class="button icon Left"></div>
> <div class="button icon Right"></div>
> <div class="button icon Up"></div>
> <div class="button icon Down"></div>
>
> If that's possible, that seriously would make your code easier and
> less complicated
>
> On Apr 16, 8:58 am, jonhobbs <jon.hobbs.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This might be hard to explain, but I need a way to loop through a
> > bunch of elements I've already selected and for each one find classes
> > that start with the word "icon". So for example I might have the
> > following elements
>
> > <div class="button iconStar"></div>
> > <div class="button iconPlus"></div>
> > <div class="button iconLeft"></div>
> > <div class="button iconRight"></div>
> > <div class="button iconUp"></div>
> > <div class="button iconDown"></div>
>
> > So, I begin by selecting the elements and looping through them....
>
> > $(".button").each(function(){
> > // Some code here
>
> > });
>
> > Now, I could put the following code in the loop...
>
> > if ($(this).hasClass("iconStar")){
> > $(this).append("<IMG SRC='Images/star.gif'>");
>
> > }
>
> > I would then have to repeat that for each possible icon, which seems
> > very inefficient.
>
> > What I'd like to do in the "each" loop is just cycle through all the
> > classes that $(this) has and pick out the one that begins with ICON
> > and then use that to append the image.
>
> > Can anyone help?
