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Can't hide other elements while clicking on another

I'm trying to make a toggle which works, but every element I click on creates a stack of these showed elements. Instead I'm trying to hide everything and display only element that I clicked on. Now I can only hide it when I click on the same element twice, which is not what I want. I want to click on one and hide previous ones that were showing.
.totalpoll-choice-image-2 is a bunch of images that always has to be shown. They are what the user clicks on to display hidden description under each image. That description shows up when I click on .totalpoll-choice-image-2. There are 5 images with that class. The next image I click on, I want to hide the previous description box.
My code:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
var element = document.getElementsByClassName("totalpoll-choice-image-2");
var elements = Array.prototype.slice.call(Array.from( element ) );
console.log(elements);
jQuery(element).each(function(item) {
jQuery(this).unbind('click').click(function(e) {
e.stopPropagation();
var id = jQuery(this).attr("data-id");
console.log(this);
//jQuery("#" + id).css({"display": 'block !important'});
//document.getElementById(id).style.setProperty( 'display', 'block', 'important' );
var descriptionContainer = document.getElementById(id);
var thiss = jQuery(this);
console.log(thiss);
console.log(jQuery(descriptionContainer).not(thiss).hide());
jQuery(descriptionContainer).toggleClass("show");
});
})
})

You can attach event handlers to a group of DOM elements at once with jQuery. So in this case, mixing vanilla JS with jQuery isn't doing you any favors - though it is possible.
I threw together this little example of what it sounds like you're going for.
The script itself is very simple (shown below). The classes and IDs are different, but the idea should be the same:
// Assign click handlers to all items at once
$('.img').click(function(e){
// Turn off all the texts
$('.stuff').hide();
// Show the one you want
$('#' + $(e.target).data('id')).show();
})
https://codepen.io/meltingchocolate/pen/NyzKMp
You may also note that I extracted the ID from the data-id attribute using the .data() method, and attached the event listener with the .click() method. This is the typical way to apply event handlers across a group of jQuery objects.

From what I understood based on your comments you want to show only description of image that has been clicked.
Here is my solution
$('.container').on('click', 'img', function() {
$(this).closest('.container').find('.image-description').addClass('hidden');
$(this).siblings('p').removeClass('hidden');
});
https://jsfiddle.net/rtsj6r41/
Also please mind your jquery version, because unbind() is deprecated since 3.0

You can use event delegation so that you only add your event handler once to the parent of your images. This is usually the best method for keeping work the browser has to do down. Adding and removing classes is a clean method for show and hide, because you can see what is happening by looking at your html along with other benefits like being easily able to check if an item is visible with .hasClass().
jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/0yL5zuab/17/
EXAMPLE HTML
< div class="main" >
<div class="image-parent">
<div class="image">
</div>
<div class="image-descr">
Some text. Some text. Some text.
</div>
</div>
<div class="image-parent">
<div class="image">
</div>
<div class="image-descr">
Some text. Some text. Some text.
</div>
</div>
<div class="image-parent">
<div class="image">
</div>
<div class="image-descr">
Some text. Some text. Some text.
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear">
</div>
</div>
EXAMPLE CSS
.image-parent{
height: 100px;
width: 200px;
float: left;
margin: 5px;
}
.image-parent .image{
background: blue;
height: 50%;
width: 100%;
}
.image-descr{
display: none;
height: 50%;
width: 100%;
}
.show-descr{
display: block;
}
.clear{
clear: both;
}
EXAMPLE JQUERY
$(".main").on("click", ".image-parent", ShowDescription);
function ShowDescription(e) {
var $parent = $(e.target).parent(".image-parent");
var $desc = $parent.find(".image-descr");
$(".image-descr").removeClass("show-descr");
$desc.addClass("show-descr");
}

How to automatically scroll horizontally as page width increase

I am building a website that expands horizontally as user takes action like http://portal.azure.com style. When they click a button(from a list) in one div, the details of the selected items appear in another div beside it. this can get really long and over flow the mother div.
I am looking for a way i can automatically scroll the page to the right most edge when a new div overflows.
layout
<div style="overflow-x: auto">
<div layout="row">
<div class="col" style="width: 400px">
</div>
//SHOWN DYNAMICALLY
<div class="col" style="width: 400px">
</div>
//SHOWN DYNAMICALLY
<div class="col" style="width: 400px">
</div>
//SHOWN DYNAMICALLY
<div class="col" style="width: 400px">
</div>
//SHOWN DYNAMICALLY
<div class="col" style="width: 400px">
</div>
</div>
</div>
As you can see above, the first div shows by default but the other divs appear based on user interaction.
By the time the 3 div appears, it overflows.
How can i scroll to the right edge anytime it over flows? (you should really check out http://portal.azure.com to see what im talking about)
PS: i am using AngularJS. I am not using jquery. But i dont mind including it if its the only option

You can use plain Javascript for keeping the scroll to right.
Something like this:
var myDiv = document.getElementById("row");
myDiv.scrollLeft = myDiv.scrollWidth;
You need to fire the above function every time you add a new div. That way it will always automatically be scrolled when divs are dynamically added.
You will need to hook up the DOMNodeInserted event on your container. The function will be called whenever a div is added to your row container. This way you will not have to change anything in your existing code.
Here is a very simple example with dynamically added divs:
var num = 1,
btn = document.getElementById('btn'),
row = document.getElementById("row");
scroller(); // fire teh scroller right away for initial scroll
// function to keep it scrolled towards right
// function scroller() { row.scrollLeft = row.scrollWidth; }
// edited to add simple animation
function scroller() {
var maxScroll = row.scrollWidth - row.clientWidth; // required to stop
row.scrollLeft += 2;
if (row.scrollLeft < maxScroll) {
timer = window.setTimeout(scroller, 1000 / 60);
}
}
// hook up event to call scroller whenever an element is dynamically added
row.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted", scroller);
// for demo to simluate dynamically adding divs
btn.addEventListener("click", function() {
var newDiv = document.createElement("div");
newDiv.setAttribute("class", "col");
num += 1; newDiv.innerText = num;
row.appendChild(newDiv);
});
div[layout] {
width: 500px; height: 140px; white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden; overflow-x: auto;
}
div.col { height: 140px; width: 400px; display: inline-block; text-align:center; }
div { border: 1px solid red; }
<div id="row" layout="row"><div class="col">1</div></div>
<button id="btn">Add</button>
Edit: Added simple animation using setTimeout (in order to keep jQuery away). Ideally you should be using requestAnimationFrame or a suitable library if you are already using one.

Toggle div on div click horizontally

I made a div which has a background image of a face, I have designed div which contains a paragraph, 2 buttons and an input box.
I know this question has been asked quite often however my situation is different, I'd like for my div with the background image of a face to be clickable so that the div containing everything else slides out from the left.
What is the best method to do this?
HTML
<div id="image"></div>
<div id="container">
<p>I like nutella and croissants</p>
<input id="message" placeholder="type...." required="required" autofocus>
<button type="button" id="send">Send</button>
<button type="button" id="close">Close</button>
</div>
CSS
div#image { background: url(http://i.imgur.com/PF2qPYL.png) no-repeat; }
JQUERY
$(document).ready(function(){
$( "#image" ).click(function() {
jQuery(this).find("#container").toggle();
});
});

Using the article link posted by Raimov (which I actually came across in a Google search before realize he posted it as well ;), we can use jQuery to animate the width when the toggling element is clicked. Remember that a background does not add size to an element, so the toggle with the background image must have a height attribute set. Also, if you have long lines of text in the form, you'll have to wrap them yourself or use another method from the article.
http://jsfiddle.net/iansan5653/wp23wrem/ is a demo, and here is the code:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#image").click(function () {
$("#container").animate({width: 'toggle'});
});
});
and this CSS is necessary:
div#image {
background: url(http://i.imgur.com/PF2qPYL.png) no-repeat;
height: 36px;
/*height needed to actually show the div (default width is 100%)*/
}
#container {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}

I created a jsFiddle for you, where after clicking on img, the form hides to the left.
$("#image").click(function() {
var $lefty = $(this).children(); //get the #container you want to hide
$lefty.animate({
left: parseInt($lefty.css('left'),10) == 0 ?
-$lefty.outerWidth() : 0
});
The resource was taken from:
Tutorial how to slide elements in different directions.

Selecting child of previous parent jQuery

Lately I've been trying my hand at animation using CSS and jQuery, it went well, however, now I want to do a bit more.
That is, once the user clicks information should show up on top of the image.
At the moment, I just have a few tags on which I perform the animations and class toggles.
My question is, I've thought about doing the following:
<div class= "singleImage">
<img src.... class="actualImage">
<p>text to put over the image</p>
</div>
This would be done per image which means that I'll have about 5 of them with different images.
However, I don't know how to go about selecting the previous element of class "actualImage".
Has anyone got any suggestions?
Thank you

Use the jQuery prev function. Example: Assume you want to select the image previous to the second image:
var foo = $(".singleImage").eq(1);
var bar = $(foo).prev().find('.actualImage');
Fiddle

Try this:
$('singleImage').children('.actualImage').prev();

I'm not sure why you are trying to select the previous element, but you could do something akin to this:
Bind a function to the click event for the element containing your image and caption.
Inside this function, toggle the caption.
Also, bind a click event handler to the body to detect clicks "off" the containing element.
HTML:
<a href="#" class="has-caption">
<img src="http://placehold.it/300x300" />
<span class="caption">This is a caption</span>
</a>
CSS:
a.has-caption { position: relative; }
a.has-caption .caption {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .25);
bottom: 0;
color: #fff;
display: none;
height: 20px;
left: 0;
line-height: 20px;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
}
a.has-caption img { vertical-align: bottom }
JavaScript
$('a.has-caption').on('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation();
var self = $(this)
, tmpId = 'toggle-' + Date.now();
self.addClass(tmpId);
$('span.caption', self).toggle();
$('body').one('click', function(e) {
if (!$(event.target).closest('.' + tmpId).length) {
$('span.caption', '.' + tmpId).hide();
self.removeClass(tmpId);
};
});
});
http://jsfiddle.net/83s7W/

On mouseover, changing an image's opacity and overlaying text

I want to drop the opacity and overlay text on a thumbnail image when I mouse over it. I have several ideas about how to do it, but I'm fairly certain they're inefficient and clumsy.
Make a duplicate image in Photoshop with the text overlay and reduced opacity. Swap the original out for the duplicate on mouseover.
Use CSS to drop the opacity on mouseover. Use Javascript to toggle visibility of a div containing the overlay text.
The problem I see with 1 is it seems like an unnecessary use of space and bandwidth, and will cause slow load times. With 2, it seems like I'd have to hard-code in the location of each div, which would be a pain to maintain and update. I know this is a somewhat general question, but I'm at a loss about how to go about this. How can I do this relatively simple task in a way that will make it easy to add new thumbnails?

Wrap your image in a <div class="thumb">
Add position: relative to .thumb.
Add <div class="text> inside .thumb.
Add display: none; position: absolute; bottom: 0 to .text.
Use .thumb:hover .text { display: block } to make the text visible on hover.
Like this: http://jsfiddle.net/dYxYs/
You could enhance this with some JavaScript/jQuery: http://jsfiddle.net/dYxYs/1/
$('.text').hide().removeClass('text').addClass('text-js');
$('.thumb').hover(function(){
$(this).find('.text-js').fadeToggle();
});
This way, the basic effect still works without JavaScript, and users with JavaScript get the appealing fade effect.

Go with option 2. There are ways to do it to not have to write a jQuery function for each image. As seen in my jsfiddle.
http://jsfiddle.net/daybreaker/dfJHZ/
HTML
<img src="http://placekitten.com/300/300" />
<span class="text" style="display:none">THIS IS A KITTEN</span>
<br><br>
<img src="http://placekitten.com/200/200" />
<span class="text" style="display:none">THIS IS A KITTEN</span>
jQuery
$('img').mouseover(function(){
$(this).css('opacity','.2');
$(this).next('span.text').show();
}).mouseout(function(){
$(this).css('opacity','1');
$(this).next('span.text').hide();
});
You would need to modify the span.text css to overlay it on top of the image, but that shouldnt be too bad.

Wrap it in an element and do something like this:
var t;
$('div.imgwrap img').hover(function(){
t = $('<div />').text($(this).attr('title')).appendTo($(this).parent());
$(this).fadeTo('fast',0.5);
},function(){
$(this).fadeTo('fast',1);
$(t).remove();
});
with a markup similar to:
<div class="imgwrap">
<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3d561d41394ff0d5d0715b2695c3dcf0?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG" title="text" />
</div>
example: http://jsfiddle.net/niklasvh/Wtr9W/

Here's an example. You can position the text however you want, but the basic principle below.
http://jsfiddle.net/Xrvha/
#container { position: relative; }
#container img, #container div {
position: absolute;
width: 128px;
height: 128px;
}
#container img { z-index -1; }
#container div {
z-index 1;
line-height: 128px;
opacity: 0;
text-align: center;
}
#container:hover img {
opacity: 0.35;
}
#container:hover div {
opacity: 1;
}

If you don't want to change your HTML wraping things etc, I suggest you this way. Here is the jQuery:
$(function() {
$(".thumb").mouseenter(function() {
var $t = $(this);
var $d = $("<div>");
$d.addClass("desc").text($t.attr("alt")).css({
width: $t.width(),
height: $t.height() - 20,
top: $t.position().top
});
$t.after($d).fadeTo("fast", 0.3);
$d.mouseleave(function() {
$(this).fadeOut("fast", 0, function() {
$(this).remove();
}).siblings("img.thumb").fadeTo("fast", 1.0);
});
});
});

2 is a good solution, have done about the same as this and it isn't as hard as you would've tought;
Drop de opacity with css indeed, than position a div relative to the img, and over it. It can be done with plain css. The z-index is the trick. That div can just be shown with $('#div').slideUp() ie.