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Individually change element inside of a class through their ID [duplicate]

I am wanting something similar to this person, except the element I want to match might not be a direct sibling.
If I had this HTML, for example,
<h3>
<span>
<b>Whaddup?</b>
</span>
</h3>
<h3>
<span>
<b>Hello</b>
</span>
</h3>
<div>
<div>
<img />
</div>
<span id="me"></span>
</div>
<h3>
<span>
<b>Goodbye</b>
</span>
</h3>
I would want to be able to do something like this:
var link = $("#me").closestPreviousElement("h3 span b");
console.log(link.text()); //"Hello"
Is there an easy way to do this in jQuery?
EDIT: I should have made my specification a little bit clearer. $("#me") may or may not have a parent div. The code should not assume that it does. I don't necessarily know anything about the surrounding elements.

var link = $("#me").closest(":has(h3 span b)").find('h3 span b');
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/e27r8/
This uses the closest()[docs] method to get the first ancestor that has a nested h3 span b, then does a .find().
Of course you could have multiple matches.
Otherwise, you're looking at doing a more direct traversal.
var link = $("#me").closest("h3 + div").prev().find('span b');
edit: This one works with your updated HTML.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/e27r8/2/
EDIT: Updated to deal with updated question.
var link = $("#me").closest("h3 + *").prev().find('span b');
This makes the targeted element for .closest() generic, so that even if there is no parent, it will still work.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/e27r8/4/

see http://api.jquery.com/prev/
var link = $("#me").parent("div").prev("h3").find("b");
alert(link.text());
see http://jsfiddle.net/gBwLq/

I know this is old, but was hunting for the same thing and ended up coming up with another solution which is fairly concise andsimple. Here's my way of finding the next or previous element, taking into account traversal over elements that aren't of the type we're looking for:
var ClosestPrev = $( StartObject ).prevAll( '.selectorClass' ).first();
var ClosestNext = $( StartObject ).nextAll( '.selectorClass' ).first();
I'm not 100% sure of the order that the collection from the nextAll/prevAll functions return, but in my test case, it appears that the array is in the direction expected. Might be helpful if someone could clarify the internals of jquery for that for a strong guarantee of reliability.

No, there is no "easy" way. Your best bet would be to do a loop where you first check each previous sibling, then move to the parent node and all of its previous siblings.
You'll need to break the selector into two, 1 to check if the current node could be the top level node in your selector, and 1 to check if it's descendants match.
Edit: This might as well be a plugin. You can use this with any selector in any HTML:
(function($) {
$.fn.closestPrior = function(selector) {
selector = selector.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
var combinator = selector.search(/[ +~>]|$/);
var parent = selector.substr(0, combinator);
var children = selector.substr(combinator);
var el = this;
var match = $();
while (el.length && !match.length) {
el = el.prev();
if (!el.length) {
var par = el.parent();
// Don't use the parent - you've already checked all of the previous
// elements in this parent, move to its previous sibling, if any.
while (par.length && !par.prev().length) {
par = par.parent();
}
el = par.prev();
if (!el.length) {
break;
}
}
if (el.is(parent) && el.find(children).length) {
match = el.find(children).last();
}
else if (el.find(selector).length) {
match = el.find(selector).last();
}
}
return match;
}
})(jQuery);

var link = $("#me").closest(":has(h3 span b)").find('span b').text();

How to delete current element if previous element is empty in jquery?

I want to delete element with class "tehnicneinfo" but only if the element I'm checking ( with class "h2size") has no child. I have a bunch of those elements, generated by a plugin and I want to delete only the ones that have the next element without child. I wrote jquery code, but it delets all of my elements, not only the ones that have the next element without child. Here is my jquery code:
$('.news .h2size > div').each(function() {
var ul = $(this).find('ul');
if(!ul.length) $(this).remove();
var h1 = $('.news').find('.tehnicneinfo');
var h2size = $('.news').find('.h2size');
if(h2size.prev().is(':empty'))
{
h1.remove();
}
});
this code is inside $(document).ready(function(). Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? The code is for something else also, so I'm having truble only from var h1 = $('.news').find('.tehnicneinfo'); this line on. Thanks in advance!
Html:
<div class="news">
<h1 class="tehnicneinfo">xxx</h1>
<div class="h2size">
<div id="xyxyxy">
.......
</div>
</div>
<h1 class="tehnicneinfo">yyy</h1>
<div class="h2size"></div>
....
</div>
That's the html, only that there is like 20 more lines that are the same, but with different values (not yyy and xxx). I would need to delete all 'yyy' (they are not all with same value).

You can use filter to filter the ones you want to remove then remove them
"I want to delete only the ones that have the next element without child"
$('.tehnicneinfo').filter(function(){
return !$(this).next().children().length;
// only ones with next sibling with no children
}).remove();
JSFIDDLE

Find followers of an element in a certain scope, which aren't siblings

I am trying to select all following elements of an element I choose. They don't necessarily have to be direct siblings of my chosen Element, so .nextAll() won't work.
Here's an example:
<div class="scope">
<div> 1 </div>
<div> 2 </div>
<div> 3 </div>
<div> 4 </div>
</div>
NOT THIS
My element is a[href="2"], so I want to select a[href="3"] and a[href="4"], but not a[href="x"] because it's not in my scope.
I found this, but it only fetches one follower, but I need all of them.
I just wrote this, which works great, but it seems odd to me and I am sure that there have to be better solutions than this one:
var $two = $('a[href="2"]');
var selection = [];
var comes_after_2 = false;
$two.closest('.scope').find('a').each(function(){
console.log(this, $two.get(0));
if(comes_after_2){
selection.push(this);
}
if(this == $two.get(0)){
comes_after_2 = true;
}
});
$(selection).css('background', 'red');
Here is a Fiddle to test it: http://jsfiddle.net/mnff40fy/1/
Please feel free to modify it, if there's a better solution. Thank you!

var $all_a = $two.closest('.scope').find('a');
// Get the position of the selected element within the set
var a_index = $all_a.index($two);
// Select all the remaining elements in the set
var $followers = $all_a.slice(a_index+1);
$followers.css('background', 'red');
DEMO

How about this?
JSFiddle
I changed the markup a little to have the href='#' so you could click each one and see how the other elements respond.
$('a').click(function(){
$('a').css('background', 'none');
var scopeDiv = $(this).closest('div.scope');
var thisIndex = $(scopeDiv).find('a').index(this);
$(scopeDiv).find('a').not(this).each(function(index){
if(index >= thisIndex)
$(this).css('background', 'red');
});
});

As an alternative, you can use .nextAll() if you modify it a bit.
In your html code, you placed the a elements as children of the div tags. In order to incorporate .nextAll() you should select for the wrapper div elements and then call .nextAll() and then select for the children a elements.
Here is what I mean.
html
<div class="scope">
<div>
1
</div>
<!-- Start Here -->
<div class="start">
2
</div>
<div>
3
</div>
<div>
4
</div>
</div>
NOT THIS
js
$( '.start' ).nextAll().children( 'a' ).css( 'background-color', 'red' );
Explanation:
I select the wrapper div with $( '.start' )
I then select all of its subsequent siblings with .nextAll()
Of those siblings, I select their children that match 'a'
I apply the css
And here is the Fiddle

How to Reduce Size of This jQuery Script and Make it More Flexible?

I just created script that shows/hides (toggles) block of HTML. There are four buttons that each can toggle its HTML block. When any HTML block is opened, but user has been clicked on other button than that HTML block's associated button... it hides that HTML block and shows new one.
Here is what I have at the moment:
$('.btn_add_event').click( function() {
$('.block_link, .block_photos, .block_videos').hide();
$('.block_event').toggle();
});
$('.btn_add_link').click( function() {
$('.block_event, .block_photos, .block_videos').hide();
$('.block_link').toggle();
});
$('.btn_add_photos').click( function() {
$('.block_event, .block_link, .block_videos').hide();
$('.block_photos').toggle();
});
$('.btn_add_videos').click( function() {
$('.block_event, .block_link, .block_photos').hide();
$('.block_videos').toggle();
});
Any ideas how to reduce code size? Also, this script isn't very flexible. Imagine to add two new buttons and blocks.

like Sam said, I would use a class that all the blocks share, so you never have to alter that code. Secondly, you can try 'traversing' to the closest block, therefore avoiding it's name. That approach is better than hard coding each specific block, but if the html dom tree changes you will need to refactor. Last, but best, you can pass in the class name desired block as a variable to the function. Below is something you can copy paste that is close to what you started with.
$('.myAddButtonClass').click( function() {
$('.mySharedBlockClass').filter(':visible').hide();
//find a good way to 'traverse' to your desired block, or name it specifically for now.
//$(this).closest(".mySharedBlockClass").show() complete guess
$('.specificBlockClass').show();
});

I kept reading this "When any HTML block is opened, but user has been clicked on other button than that HTML block's associated button" thinking that my eyes were failing me when Its just bad English.
If you want to make it more dynamic, what you can do is add a common class keyword. Then
when the click event is raise. You can have it loop though all the classes that have the
keyword and have it hide them all (except the current one that was clicked) and then show the current one by using the 'this' keyword.

you can refer below link,
http://chandreshmaheshwari.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/show-hide-div-content-using-jquery/
call function showSlidingDiv() onclick event and pass your button class dynamically.
This may be useful.
Thanks.

try this
$('input[type=button]').click( function() {
$('div[class^=block]').hide(); // I resumed html block is div
$(this).toggle();
});

Unfortunatly I couldn't test it, but if I can remember right following should work:
function toogleFunc(clickObject, toogleTarget, hideTarget)
{
$(clickObject).click(function()
{
$(hideTarget).hide();
$(toogleTarget).toggle();
});
}
And the call:
toogleFunc(
".btn_add_videos",
".block_videos",
".block_event, .block_link, .block_photos"
);
and so far

Assuming the buttons will only have one class each, something like this ought to work.
var classNames = [ 'btn_add_event', 'block_link', 'block_photos', 'block_videos' ];
var all = '.' + classNames.join(', .'); // generate a jquery format string for selection
$(all).click( function() {
var j = classNames.length;
while(j--){
if( this.className === classNames[j] ){
var others = classNames.splice(j, 1); // should leave all classes but the one on this button
$('.' + others.join(', .')).hide();
$('.' + classNames[j]).toggle();
}
}
}
All the buttons have the same handler. When the handler fires, it checks the sender for one of the classes in the list. If a class is found, it generates a jquery selection string from the remaining classes and hides them, and toggles the one found. You may have to do some checking to make sure the strings are generating correctly.

It depends by how your HTML is structured.
Supposing you've something like this
<div class="area">
<div class="one"></div>
<div class="two"></div>
<div class="three"></div>
</div>
...
<div class="sender">
<a class="one"></a>
<a class="two"></a>
<a class="three"></a>
</div>
You have a class shared by the sender and the target.
Your js would be like this:
$('.sender > a').click(function() {
var target = $(this).attr('class');
$('.area > .' + target).show().siblings().hide();
});
You show your real target and hide its siblings, which aren't needed.

If you put the class postfixes in an array, you can easily make this code more dynamic. This code assumed that it doesn't matter in which order toggle or hide are called. If it does matter, you can just remember the right classname inside the (inner) loop, and toggle that class after the loop.
The advantage to this approach is that you can extend the array with an exta class without needing to modifying the rest of the code.
var classes = new Array('videos', 'event', 'link', 'photos');
for (var i = 0; i < classes.length; ++i)
{
$('.btn_add_' + classes[i]).click(
function()
{
for (var j = 0; j < classes.length; ++j)
{
if (this.hasClass('btn_add_' + classes[j]))
{
$('.block_' + classes[j]).toggle();
}
else
{
$('.block_' + classes[j]).hide();
}
}
});
}
You could make this code more elegant by not assigning those elements classes like btn_add_event, but give them two classes: btn_add and event, or even resort to giving them id's. My solution is based on your description of your current html.

Here is what I think is a nice flexible and performant function. It assumes you can contain your links and html blocks in a parent, but otherwise it uses closures to precalculate the elements involved, so a click is super-fast.
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Enables show/hide functionality on click.
// The elements within 'container' matching the selector 'blocks' are hidden
// When elements within 'container' matching the selector 'clicker' are clicked
// their attribute with the name 'clickerAttr' is appended to the selector
// 'subject' to identify a target, usually one of the 'blocks'. All blocks
// except the target are hidden. The target is shown.
//
// Change clickerAttr from 'linkTarget' to 'id' if you want XHTML compliance
//
// container: grouping of related elements for which to enable this functionality
// clicker: selector to element type that when clicked triggers the show/hide functionality
// clickerAttr: name of the DOM attribute that will be used to adapt the 'subject' selector
// blocks: selector to the html blocks that will be shown or hidden when the clicker is clicked
// subject: root of the selector to be used to identify the one html block to be shown
//
function initToggle(container,clicker,clickerAttr,blocks,subject) {
$(container).each(
function(idx,instance) {
var containerElement = $(instance);
var containedBlocks = containerElement.find(blocks);
containerElement.find(clicker).each(function(idxC, instanceClicker) {
var tgtE = containerElement.find(subject+instanceClicker.getAttribute(clickerAttr));
var clickerBlocks = containedBlocks.not(tgtE);
$(instanceClicker).click(function(event) {
clickerBlocks.hide();
tgtE.toggle();
});
});
// initially cleared
containedBlocks.hide();
}
);
}
$(function() {
initToggle('.toggle','a.link','linkTarget','div.block','div.');
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
Example HTML block toggle:
<div class="toggle">
a <br />
b <br />
c <br />
<div class="A block"> A </div>
<div class="B block"> B </div>
<div class="C block"> C </div>
</div> <!-- toggle -->
This next one is not enabled, to show scoping.
<div class="toggle2">
a <br />
<div class="A block">A</div>
</div> <!-- toggle2 -->
This next one is enabled, to show use in multiple positions on a page, such as in a portlet library.
<div class="toggle">
a <br />
<div class="A block">A</div>
</div> <!-- toggle (2) -->
</body>
</html>

prototype - elegant code to find next sibling

There is the following HTML structure
<div>
<p class="open">some txt</p>
<p>some text 2</p>
<p>some text 3</p>
Down
</div>
and when I press down I want to move class "open" to next p tag,
here is code that do this, but I didn't think that it most elegant solution
function down(el){
el.getElementsBySelector("p.open").each(
function(s){
s.removeClassName('open');
if (s.next('p')){
s.next('p').addClassName('open');
}
else{
el.getElementsBySelector("p:first").each(
function(e){
e.addClassName('open');
}
);
}
}
);
}
how this code can be improved?

It seems okay to me, but I have to say your question is very argumentative. There isn't a definitive answer for your question.

I think you could do with:
function down(el) {
var currentOpenP = el.down('p.open');
var nextPSibling = currentOpenP.next('p');
if (nextPSibling) {
currentOpenP.removeClassName('open');
nextPSibling.addClassName('open');
}
}
This code will get the first P tag under your el which has the className "open", check if a next sibling P tag exists, and if it does, set its className to "open" and remove the className from the previous tag.

Try this:
function down(el){
var selected = el.down('p.open');
el.select('p.open').invoke('removeClassName', 'open');
var next = selected.next('p'); // select next p
if(!next) next = el.down('p'); // if next doesn't exists, use the first one
next.addClassName('open');
}