checking of whether clicked+Jquery

Question

Hi, i m new to JQuery... In my App, i have some 5 divs..while clicking any one of the div ,i want to check whether any other divs have been clicked before...

actually in my code..I have Text, Textarea Dropdown .. while clicking on Text/textarea/dropdown for the first time i.e..,(i need to check whether any of the others including its own has been clicked before).so tat i can proceed based on tat

Even if i use what u said having a variable=1 ..There arose an issue that while clicking on any of text/textarea/dropdown ,i want to check whether the one i m clicking and the others have clicked before....

.Please suggest me...

Answer 1

Just track it in a variable. The example assumes that "clicked" is defined something (a closure that generates the event handler function would be good) and initilised to a value of "0" or other non-true value.

if (clicked) {
  a();
} else {
  b();
}
clicked = 1;

Answer 2

I don't know what exactly you are trying to do. But one possible solution could be to define new attribute for each div, let say "was_clicked" and when you can do the following:

div.click( function(event)
{
  if ( $( "div[was_clicked=true]").length > 0)
   // some of the div was clicked
   // you can iterate over each clicked div by  $( "div[was_clicked=true]").each( ...)
  $(this).attr( "was_clicked", "true");
});