I m trying to create a standardized show/hide element system, like so:
<div class="opener popup_1">Click Me</div>
<div class="popup popup_1">I m usually hidden</div>
Clicking on the div with the opener class should show() the div with the popup class. I don t know how many opener/popup combinations I m going to have on any given page, I don t know where on any given page the opener and the popup are going to be displayed, and I don t know how many popups a given opener should call show() for. Both the opener and the popup have to be able to have more classes than just what s used by jQuery.
What I d like to do is something like this:
$(".opener").click(function() {
var openerTarget = $(this).attr("class").filter(function() {
return this.class.match(/^popup_([a-zA-Z0-9-_+]*) ?$/);
});
$(".popup." + openerTarget).show();
The idea is that when you click on an opener, it filters out "popup_whatever" from opener s classes and stores that as openerTarget. Then anything with class=popup and openerTarget will be shown.