Thanks for your replies, I appreciate it.
I put the contents of gallery.js inside the click function and it
appears to be working now. I had tried this before, but there must
have been an unrelated syntax error or something that was causing it
to break.
Thanks
Andrew
On Aug 9, 4:45 pm, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 7:38 pm, "andrew.croce" <andrew.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What I was trying to do with var current_section = $(this).attr
> > ("name"); was to create a variable that simply contained the "name" of
> > the particular subsection, which I could then attach to "_tab" to
> ...
> > idea, could that be screwing up the whole file? or is the name
> > attribute inaccessible to jquery?
>
> i see. No, it's not a bad idea, i was just confused by it.
>
> > The bigger problem, it seems, is that nothing is running in that
> > gallery.js file, not even the first few lines...
> > $(".current_panel .image_area").removeClass("current_area");
> > $(".current_panel .image_area").hide();
> > $(".current_panel .intro").show();
> > $(".current_panel .intro").addClass("current_area");
> > $(".back_tab").hide();
>
> If you haven't done so yet, install Firebug and enable it for your
> page. Then click the "Script --> Break on all Errors" option and
> reload your script. If there's a syntax error or something which is
> causing an silent failure, this will normally point you directly to
> it. Other than that, i don't have any tips.
>
> > class .current_panel is added when a main menu btn is clicked, and the
> > script for that is in the other panels.js file, which, as I said, is
> > running perfectly. If all the javascript on the site is run on page
> > load, then there is no .current_tab class at the time, and hence
> > nothing will happen.
>
> That's right - selectors match only what's currently in the dom at the
> moment (but the new livequery API can also catch future matches). It
> sounds like you've found the problem.
