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I'm looking to change several images onclick using JQuery instead of normal JavaScript and also change the image alt attribute at the same time for accessibility.

It should be something easy as I'm not looking to do some special effect on change but I still haven't find anything about it.

Here is the way I was doing with JS (without change the alt attribute):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
<head>
 <title>Change Image using Javascript</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
   function changeImg(image_id, image_folder){
   document.getElementById(image_id).src = image_folder;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">

<img id="image1" src="images/nameofthesubfolder/originalimage1.jpg" alt="Original Image 1" />
<br />
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" onclick="changeImg('image1', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image1.jpg')"/>Image 1</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" onclick="changeImg('image1', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image2.gif');"/>Image 2</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" onclick="changeImg('image1', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image3.png');"/>Image 3</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" onclick="changeImg('image1', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image4.jpeg');"/>Image 4</label>
<br />
<br />
<img id="image2" src="images/nameofthesubfolder/originalimage2.jpg" alt="Original Image 2" />
<br />
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn2" onclick="changeImg('image2', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image5.gif')"/>Image 5</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn2" onclick="changeImg('image2', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image6.png);"/>Image 6</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn2" onclick="changeImg('image2', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image7.jpeg');"/>Image 7</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="radio_btn2" onclick="changeImg('image2', 'images/nameofthesubfolder/image8.gif');"/>Image 8</label>
</div>
</body>
</html>

And is there a way to avoid repeating images/nameofthesubfolder/ ?

Edit: Thanks a lot altCognito but I don't understand how to use this code to have a different alt attribute for each image. Maybe I forgot to mention that I was looking for it (my bad).

+4  A: 

Let's go with this. (I rushed through this initially)

<img id="radio_btn1" src="originalimage1.jpg" />
<br />
  <input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" value='image1.jpg' />
  <input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" value='image2.gif' />
  <input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" value='image3.png' />
  <input type="radio" name="radio_btn1" value='image4.jpeg' />

And then the jQuery:

imgFldr = 'images/nameofthesubfolder/';
$("input[type='radio']").click(function() {
   $('#'+this.name).attr('src', imgFldr+this.value).attr('alt', 'newattribute');
});

See the example.

You can edit it here: http://jsbin.com/esebu/edit

altCognito