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Hiding a Div without duplicating code

I have a pop out menu in a div.
I'm controlling the opening and closing of the div using: ng-click="showNavMenu = !showNavMenu".
However for each, link where I use this, i need to duplicate that code so that the menu actually closes, once the new view is loaded.
I'd like to avoid this code duplication - any ideas on what I can do:
<div class="navMenu" ng-show="showNavMenu">
<ul>
<li>About</li>
<li>Privacy</li>
<li>Contact Us</li>
</ul>
</div>

Use function instead
<li>About</li>
And define this function in controller
$scope.toggleMenu = function() {
$scope.showNavMenu = !$scope.showNavMenu;
}

What about putting the ng-click on the parent ul? I'm not super well-versed in angular's event bubbling/propagation rules - there might be some tweaks you need to make to your function or to the ng-click attribute. Or it might just work.
function toggleMenu() {
$scope.showNavMenu = !$scope.showNavMenu
}
-----
<ul ng-click="toggleMenu()">

I would go with moving the navigation logic to the controller code, seems the cleanest solution to me. So your markup would look like:
<div class="navMenu" ng-show="showNavMenu">
<ul>
<li><a href ng-click="navigate('about')">About</a></li>
<li><a href ng-click="navigate('privacy')">Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href ng-click="navigate('contact')">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
And inside your controller:
$scope.navigate = function(path) {
$scope.showNavMenu = false;
window.location.href = '/' + path; //better navigate via router
}

jquery active menu lost after clicking on link

So I have a simple menu and I'm trying to remove/add an active class to the clicked menu item.
$(function(){
$('ul.navbar-nav li').click(function(){
$('ul.navbar-nav li').removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
});
});
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active">Home</li>
<li>work</li>
<li>methods</li>
<li>blog</li>
<li>team</li>
<li>contact</li>
</ul>
The issue I'm having is this works but since going to a new page refreshes the site once I'm in the new page the active class always goes back to the initial active class in my HTML. I feel like I've done this a number of times and never had this issue. Maybe I'm missing something.

As you redirecting new page on each link click, so dynamically added active class is removed on page load. You can do it like following.
Remove the active class from home menu and add specific href to this like below.
<li class="active">Home</li>
jQuery
$(function () {
$('ul.navbar-nav > li > a').each(function () {
if (window.location.pathname.indexOf($(this).attr('href')) > -1) {
$(this).closest('li').addClass('active');
return false;
}
});
});

There is more than just one file in your project, right?
I would copy the whole ul navbar and paste it into every single page. All you have to do after that, is to put the active class on the respective li element.

Update: None of your li's should have an active class and then add the active class on page load.
/menu.html
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="home">Home</li>
<li class="work">work</li>
<li class="methods">methods</li>
<li class="blog">blog</li>
<li class="team">team</li>
<li class="contact">contact</li>
</ul>
js could be something like this
var page = window.location.pathname.split('/')[1];
$('li.' + page).addClass('active');

You can try following things
$(function()
{
$('ul.navbar-nav li').click(function(event)
{
$('ul.navbar-nav li').removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
event.preventDefault();
});
});
Prevent default would avoid anchor tag tag default action to reload the page. So this should work.
Or if you do not need to go to another page then you can use div instead anchor tag.You can simulate anchor tag behaviour using :hover css selector.
div:hover
{
color:blue;
cursor:pointer;
font-style:underline;
}

This seems to be working:
HTML:
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li id="liHome">home</li>
<li id="liWork">work</li>
<li id="liMethods">methods</li>
<li id="liBlog">blog</li>
<li id="liTeam">team</li>
<li id="liContact">contact</li>
</ul>
The event handler:
$('ul.navbar-nav li').click(function(){
window.sessionStorage.activeMenuItem = this.id;
});
When the page has loaded:
if (window.sessionStorage.activeMenuItem) {
$("#"+sessionStorage.activeMenuItem).addClass('active');
}
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Window/sessionStorage:
A page session lasts for as long as the browser is open and survives over page reloads and restores.
One problem with this solution is that you cannot open links in a new window, since:
Opening a page in a new tab or window will cause a new session to be initiated, which differs from how session cookies work.

You're likely in one of three scenarios:
A) You have a collection of static HTML pages with unique content.
B) You're using a server-side language and doing some basic includes
C) You're using a framework with routing logic.
A If you have two pages both containing the menu code, then it's as simple as moving the default active class.
<!-- Home -->
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active">Home</li>
<li>work</li>
…
</ul>
<!-- Work -->
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li>Home</li>
<li class="active">work</li>
…
</ul>
B Assuming you're using PHP then something like the following is an easy way to pass this info around:
// menu.php
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li <?php if($page = 'home'){ echo 'class="active"' } ?>>Home</li>
…
</ul>
// home.php
<?php
$page = 'home';
include(menu.php);
…
C This will largely depend on the framework you're using, but most will have template helpers that can access the current route, something like:
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li <% is_route('home') class="active" %>>Home</li>
But adding classes after DOM load with javascript or using session or cookie states is likely over the top.

Click event on jQuery "fly out" menu

I'm trying to create a click event on a jQuery fly out menu. Once you hover to the 2nd or 3rd layer is where I need the event to take place.
I'm also new to jQuery so forgive me if the code isn't up to standards.
I have a sample here: http://jsbin.com/makoreficexe/1/edit

If I understood it right, you just want to have a click event inside the sub items of menu.
To do that, you need to find a way to identify the tag that was clicked, and there are a lot of ways.
I'll show you just 3 examples, but there are a lot...
1 - you can have a class for every tag that you want to click.
HTML - specifying a class
<li>Home
<!-- This is the sub nav -->
<ul class="listTab">
<li><a class="About" href="#">About This Template Here</a></li>
<li><a class="Flash" href="#">Flash</a></li>
<li><a class="Jquery" href="#">jQuery</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
Js
$(document).ready(function($) {
$(".About").click(function(){
alert("clicked")
}),
$(".Flash").click(function(){
alert("clicked")
})
});
The problem in this case is that is difficult to manage a lot of classes.
2 Using Id's
<li>Home
<!-- This is the sub nav -->
<ul class="listTab">
<li><a id="About" href="#">About This Template Here</a></li>
<li><a id="Flash" href="#">Flash</a></li>
<li><a id="Jquery" href="#">jQuery</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
JS
$(document).ready(function($) {
$("#About").click(function(){
alert("clicked")
}),
$("#Flash").click(function(){
alert("clicked")
})
});
The problem is that could be harder to manage a lot of ids as well. but i guess that is the better approach for your simple scenario
3 - You can get it using nth child. the problem is that if you change the structure of your html file, it can "break" your jquery selector.
$("#navList li:nth-child(2)").click(function(e){
alert(e);
})
Here is a list with a lot of types of jquery selector .
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/jquery-selectors.htm
Hope it helps.

$('.listTab a').click(function(e){...});

One approach would be to add "data" attributes to your a tags (http://api.jquery.com/data/).
For example, in the html for your first flyout:
<li><a data-whatever="This is in data-whatever" href="#">About This Template Here</a></li>
And in your jQuery ready bit, add this:
$('.listTab li a').click( function (e){
e.preventDefault(); // this prevents the href="#" in your a tag from firing
console.log($(this).data('whatever'));
});
You can then use the 'data-whatever' attribute in your click function to trigger what needs to happen.
http://jsbin.com/budoqizumuja/3/edit?html,css,js,console,output

Jquery Dynatree plugin using clicks in id

Using Firebug I have found that the Dynatree plugin changes the following code:
<li id="id3.1" class="expanded">Menu 1
<ul>
<li id="id3.1.1">Sub-menu 1</li>
</ul>
</li>
To this:
<li class="">
<span class="dynatree-node dynatree-exp-c dynatree-ico-c">
<span class="dynatree-connector"></span>
<span class="dynatree-icon"></span>
<a class="dynatree-title" href="#">Sub-menu 1</a>
</span>
</li>
So when I try to make a click event on the id="id3.1.1" nothing happens because this id doesn't exist anymore.
I made a search here and found the onActivate option that will make my click happen on the menu:
$("#treeMenu").dynatree({
onActivate: function(node){
var menuTitle = node.data.title;
alert(menuTitle);
}
});
My question: Is this the only way to do the click event using Dynatree?

Well I think that is the best option, because it uses the API of the plugin, but of course you could still attach an event to the <a> like this:
$('a.dynatree-title').live('click', function(e){
//here e.target is the link you have clicked
});

jQuery .click event not registering with class

I'm trying to register a click event for a menu list button identified by a class, but it doesn't seem to be firing. My code is as follows:
<body>
<!-- jQuery Simple Drop-Down Menu http://javascript-array.com/scripts/jquery_simple_drop_down_menu/# -->
<div id="dropDownDiv" style="width: 908px; height: 24px; margin: auto auto; background: #324143;">
<ul id="jsddm">
<li>Item 1
<ul>
<li><a class="btn myOtherClass" href="#">Button 1</a></li>
<li><a class="btn myOtherClass"href="#">Button 2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Item 2
<ul>
<li><a class="btn myOtherClass" href="#">Button 3</a></li>
<li><a class="btn myOtherClass" href="#">Button 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
And in my script I have the following:
/* Register the click event for menu buttons */
$('.btn').click(function () {
alert("You clicked a button");
});
The alert never fires and I'm not sure why, any help is appreciated.
UPDATE:
The code in the link works for me to, not sure why it's not working in my project. I'm in an Eclipse PHP Project environment with Java resources enabled. I tried my project in Chrome and Firefox, not working for either. I'll check the rest of my script.
UPDATE 2:
Looks like Shef's recommendation about wrapping in a .ready function did the trick. I still don't understand why it needs that to work, "c=smiles"'s link worked without it.

Works fine for me, check it out. Maybe you didn't include jQuery? Or, you are not wrapping your event listener bind code inside a document ready like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.btn').click(function () {
alert("You clicked a button");
});
});

are you using stopPropagation or return false in another click event that may have prevented the click event from happening?
Is the jQuery used after jQuery has been loaded?
Is the in the DOM at the time of binding? (use delegate instead of click if not, or bind after loading)