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Jquery change img source issues

Hi everyone I'm a Graphic Design student working on an interactive timeline for a project. This timeline uses singular IMG's called events which when hovered over have their src changed to a transitional gif, which following a delay is then again replaced with an idle gif that repeats.
On click, something similar happens.
I know very little about Jquery and Javascript but have tried to build something that functions to the best of my novice ability.
What i'm asking for is help with some of the "Bugs" there are a few that I know of and I'll list them here:
After mouse_leave has been triggered upon the mouse re-entering the img, the code seems to only use the idle gif and not the transitional one.
The img can be clicked multiple times causing the animation to repeat.
if the icon is clicked too early the delayed triggers then overwrite the new animation.
Hopefully, I've explained those issues well enough, here's the website so you can look at the issues I'm having: http://theinfiniteyear.co.uk/
And this is the code for the site:
$(document).ready(function() {
//event1
$("#event1").mouseenter(function() {
$(this).attr("src", "images/event_1_enter.gif").delay(2000).queue(function(next) {
$(this).attr("src", "images/event_1_hover.gif")
});
$("#event1").mousedown(function() {
$(this).attr("src", "images/event_1_click.gif")
});
$("#event1").click(function() {
setTimeout(function() {
window.location.href = 'artytest.html';
}, 5000)
});
$("#event1").click(function() {
setTimeout(function() {
$("#background").removeClass("hiddenobject");
}, 3500);
});
$("#event1").mouseleave(function() {
$(this).attr("src", "Images/event_1_initial.gif")
});
});
});
Sorry for this being so long, I'll be looking at other posts that may help but I thought it would be best to ask on here directly rather than dig through loads of forums.
I can provide more info if asked.
Thanks in advance.

Switching photo position via click on thumbnail with jquery

I am trying to put a photo view/slideshow on my webpage and I am not getting the results I am looking for. I have created a Fiddle HERE to show you what I am trying to do. What I want it to do is when you click a thumbnail it switches the thumbnail into the main photo spot and the main photo into the thumbnail spot. It works at first but after you start clicking the other thumbnails it starts not switching the correct photo into the main slot. Also if you reclick the thumbnail you just clicked it does nothing. Here is my jquery code but take a look at my fiddle and you will be able to see what I am trying to do.
$('.thumb1').click(function() {
$('.thumb1, .main').fadeIn().toggleClass('thumb1 main');
});
$('.thumb2').click(function() {
$('.thumb2, .main').fadeIn().toggleClass('thumb2 main');
});
$('.thumb3').click(function() {
$('.thumb3, .main').fadeIn().toggleClass('thumb3 main');
});
$('.thumb4').click(function() {
$('.thumb4, .main').fadeIn().toggleClass('thumb4 main');
});

I changed your classes similarly to how Joao did, but my JavaScript is a little different
$('.thumb').click(function () {
var newHTML = this.innerHTML;
this.innerHTML = $('.main')[0].innerHTML
$('.main').html(newHTML);
});
Instead of just changing the src, you will also keep all other attributes of the images, such as the alt attribute, which you should add to your images for accessibility purposes.
I didn't implement the idea of not having clicking the same one do nothing, because then if they want to look at the image they just looked at they can't.
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/howderek/RfKh4/6/

I was looking at your code, and I wouldn't recommend switching around classes between elements like that since it might throw out a couple of bugs like yours. I played around with your code and simplified a little bit:
$('.thumb').click(function () {
var previousSrc = $('.main').children().attr('src');
$('.main').children().attr('src', $(this).children().attr('src'));
$(this).children().attr('src', previousSrc);
});
Here's the updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/RfKh4/5/
Basically what I did was save the previous src attribute of the .main div image inside previousSrc and then I change the div's image to the one in the thumbnail. And finally change the thumbnail's image to the one that was on the .main div. Hope it helps you!

jQuery tooltip with link inside

I have a grid of large images for products. I'm looking to have a tooltip appear when you rollover the image. Though the tooltip will need to stay visible because there will be content and links inside of it. The tooltip will be positioned partly on top of its respective large product image. How do I determine to hide the tooltip when the user is not over the tooltip and the product image and show the tooltip when the user is over the tooltip and image?
Is there a jQuery plugin that handles this already?
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

Hey I had an issue like this once. Though not exactly what you need this is what I ended up using.
var over_picker = false; //var to store state of over or not over
$('.list_picker').live('mouseover mouseout', function(event){
if (event.type == 'mouseover') {
over_picker=true;
console.log('inside');
}else{
over_picker=false;
console.log('outside');
}
});
$('body').live('click', function(){
if(! over_picker) $('.list_picker').hide();
});
I hope this can be of some help.

As already suggested in another thread, the native design of the tooltip rely on different assumptions, so the behaviour you need (a sticky tooltip that allows the user to click its content) is not officially supported.
Anyway looking at this link you can see it's possibile to achieve what you need using jQuery Tools:
http://jquerytools.org/demos/tooltip/any-html.html
Here is a standalone demo
http://jquerytools.org/demos/tooltip/any-html.htm

html background ad

I have seen a lot of websites which "wrapper" width is 960px. As a background image they have an image which is clickable (some kind of advertise) and the whole webpage is over that image, like on this site.
Can you give me tutorial or something on that ?

Tom's code was a huge help, but I needed pointer cursor for this type of ad, but not for all the site, so I came up with this solution:
$('body').bind('click', function(e) {
if ($(e.target).closest('#container').size() == 0) {
alert('click');
}
}).bind('mouseover', function(e) {
if ($(e.target).closest('#container').size() == 0) {
$(this).css('cursor','pointer');
} else {
$(this).css('cursor','default');
}
});

In the first place you put the ad image as the website background then basically you have to capture the click on the whole body and check if it was in-or-outside of the page content. To do that you have to check if the event target element have the content wrapper (or wrappers if there are multiple) as one of its parent nodes - if not it means the click was outside of the page content.
If you'd like to do it here on StackOverflow you could do it with this bit of code.
$('body').bind('click', function(e){
if(!$(e.target).closest('#content').length) {
alert('ad outside content clicked');
}
});
Feel free to try it in your javascript console - SO is using jQuery so it will work - when you will click outside of the content area (at the edges of the screen) you will get alert that ad was clicked.
You'd obviously have to replace the alert with any kind of callback you'd have for your commercial - opening a new web page or whatever
Hope that helps
Tom
ps.
Keep in mind that this example is using jQuery for simplicity not native JS so you'd need the library for it to work.

How can I reveal content and maintain its visibility when mousing to a child element?

I'm asking a question very similar to this one—dare I say identical?
An example is currently in the bottom navigation on this page.
I'm looking to display the name and link of the next and previous page when a user hovers over their respective icons. I'm pretty sure my solution will entail binding or timers, neither of which I'm seeming to understand very well at the moment.
Currently, I have:
$(document).ready(function() {
var dropdown = $('span.hide_me');
var navigator = $('a.paginate_link');
dropdown.hide();
$(navigator).hover(function(){
$(this).siblings(dropdown).fadeIn();
}, function(){
setTimeout(function(){
dropdown.fadeOut();
}, 3000);
});
});
with its respective HTML (some ExpressionEngine code included—apologies):
<p class="older_entry">Older<span class="hide_me">Older entry:
<br />
{title}</span></p>
{/exp:weblog:next_entry}
<p class="blog_home">Blog Main<span class="hide_me">Back to the blog</span></p>
{exp:weblog:prev_entry weblog="blog"}
<p class="newer_entry">Newer<span class="hide_me">Newer entry:
<br />
{title}</span></p>
This is behaving pretty strangely at the moment. Sometimes it waits three seconds, sometimes it waits one second, sometimes it doesn't fade out altogether.
Essentially, I'm looking to fade in 'span.hide_me' on hover of the icons ('a.paginate_link'), and I'd like it to remain visible when users mouse over the span.
Think anyone could help walk me through this process and understand exactly how the timers and clearing of the timers is working?
Thanks so much, Stack Overflow. You guys have been incredible as I walk down this road of learning to make the internet.

If you just want to get it working, you can try to use a tooltip plugin like this one.
If you want to understand how this should be done: first, get rid of the timeout, and make it work without it. The difference (from the user's point of view) is very small, and it simplifies stuff (developing and debugging). After you get it working like you want, put the timeout back in.
Now, the problem is you don't really want to hide the shown element on the navigator mouse-out event. You want to hide it in its own mouse out event. So I think you can just pass the first argument to the navigator hover function, and add another hover to dropdowns, that will have an empty function as a first argument, and the hiding code in its second argument.
EDIT (according to your response to stefpet's answer)
I understand that you DO want the dropdown to disappear if the mouse moves out of the navigator, UNLESS its moved to the dropdown itself. This complicates a little, but here is how it can be done: on both types of items mouse-out event, you set a timer that calls a function that hides the dropdown. lets say the timer is 1 second. on both kind of item mouse-in even, you clear this timer (see the w3school page on timing for syntax, etc). plus, in the navigator's mouse-in you have to show the dropdown.

Another issue with the timer in your code is that it will always execute when mouse-out. Due to the 3 seconds delay you might very well trigger it again when mouse-over but since the timer still exist it will fade out despite you actually have the mouse over the element.
Moving the mouse back and forth quickly will trigger multiple timers.
Try to get it to work without the timer first, then (if really needed) add the additional complexity with the delay (which you must keep track of and remove/reset depending on state).

Here was the final working code, for anyone who comes across this again. Feel free to let me know if I could have improved it in any ways:
$(document).ready(function() {
var dropdown = $('span.hide_me');
var navigator = $('a.paginate_link');
dropdown.hide();
$(navigator).hover(function(){
clearTimeout(emptyTimer);
$(this).siblings(dropdown).fadeIn();
}, function(){
emptyTimer = setTimeout(function(){
dropdown.fadeOut();
}, 500);
});
$(dropdown).hover(function(){
clearTimeout(emptyTimer);
}, function(){
emptyTimer = setTimeout(function(){
dropdown.fadeOut();
}, 500);
});
});