I'm a beginner to programming, so please bear with me, I might be
missing something really obvious here and not realising it.
For my first jQuery script that I'm writing unassisted by a tutorial,
I want to make a very simple page.
This page has three squares on it, and once you click on a square it
changes to blue while the other two squares change to green.
To avoid code repetition, and give myself a bit of a challenge I
decided to use the switch statement, and have implemented it like
this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".button").click(function(){
var id = "#" + $(this).attr("id");
switch(id){
case id:
var formattedID = "\'" + id + "\'";
$(".button:not(formattedID)").css("background-color", "green");
$("#test").append("formattedID = " +
formattedID + "<br />");
break;
};
});
});
What seems to make this code not work is the :not statement. If I
replace the ":not(formattedID)" with ":not('#button1')" the code works
as expected. I don't understand why the :not() works with a string
that's directly typed into it, but not with a variable that holds a
string.
I've uploaded this to JS Bin, so you can see the code fully.
http://jsbin.com/ibate/edit
Any help is very appreciated,
alexpls
