Yes, you can. "this" refers to the HTMLElement in the context of an
event handler. Though, your syntax is a bit wonky, should be:
$('#slickbox' + this.id).toggle(400);
On May 6, 4:13 am, Christos <tsam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to ask whether we can use "this" for selecting in jquery.
> What i want to do is to have one toggle function for many objects.
> the fuction i use now is the above
>
> $('a#slick-toggle').click(function() {
> $('#slickbox').toggle(400);
> return false;
> });
>
> which toggles the "slickbox" when the "slick-toggle" is clicked. The
> problem that i have is that i want to have many objects like "slick-
> toggle1" "slickbox1", "slick-toggle2" "slickbox2". One way is to make
> different function for each "a", but because the html is created
> dynamically, i don't know from the beggining how many i will have. So
> what i ask how i can do something like that
>
> $('a').click(function() {
> $('#slickbox+this.id').toggle(400);
> return false;
> });
>
> where this.id is going to be the id of the "a" i click and "#slickbox
> +this.id" is the id of the object i want to hide.
>
> Christos
