Actual after reading it again I like MorningZ's solution better.
On Apr 16, 9:45 am, David <david.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem I see is what happens when there is more than one class?
> Your icon call may not be the first class. in which case you would not
> have selected it. But it was still supposed to get an icon. Would it
> be possible to give the divs that are supposed to receive the icons a
> generic class then use an attribute to define what icons it is
> supposed to have. You could even reduce the amount of code that you
> have to output.
>
> <div class="icon button" img="Star"></div>
>
> $(".button").each(function(){
> if ($(this).hasAttribute("img") && $(this).attr("img") != "")
> {
> $(this).append("<IMG SRC='" + $(this).attr("img") + ".gif'>");}
>
> )
>
> I know that it is probably not the best code as you are using
> attibutes that do not fall into the dom standards but it looks like it
> would get the job done.
>
> On Apr 16, 8:51 am, jonhobbs <jon.hobbs.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Here is some psuedo-code for what I'm trying to achieve...
>
> > $(".button").each(function(){
>
> > // Get an array of classes that are attached to $(this)
>
> > // Loop through the array classes
> > for (items in array){
>
> > // check to see if the class starts with "icon"
> > if(className.startswith('icon')){
>
> > // remove the first 4 characters
> > var iconName = className.substring(4, className.length);
>
> > // Use the remainder to append the image
> > $(this).append("<IMG SRC='" + iconName + ".gif'>");
>
> > }
>
> > }
>
> > });
>
> > That way, I could have hundreds of possible icons and I wouldn't have
> > to have hundreds of IF statements and hundreds of calls to .hasClass()
>
> > On Apr 16, 2:16 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Well, other than asking whether or not an object "has a class or
> > > doesn't", there isn't much you can do that check each class name
>
> > > so like (and this assumes your original HTML, not the separated class
> > > name) :
>
> > > var icons = ["Star", "Plus", "Left", "Right", "Up", "Down"];
> > > $("div.button").each(function() {
> > > var $dv = $(this);
> > > $.each(icons, function() {
> > > if ($dv.hasClass("icon" + this)) {
> > > $dv.append('<img src="Images/' + this + '.gif"
> > > alt="" />');
> > > return false;
> > > }
> > > });
>
> > > });
>
> > > On Apr 16, 9:08 am, jonhobbs <jon.hobbs.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > 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.
>
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