So I am pretty new to JQuery and just spent 5 hours getting this working. If anyone has a better approach please I would love to hear.
That is my basic question how can it be done cleaner, more streamline?
What I did was used the minitabs plugin and what the code below will do is toggle custom tabs back and forth. I needed a way to have the one tab blue and the other gray depending what tab I was on. What I hit against was tab1 would stay blue even when I clicked on tab2, just was funky until this fixed it. As you can see it's not the cleanest approach but it works. I am sure if you want to try this out the minitab plugin can be had here.
http://minitabs.googlecode.com/files/jquery.minitabs.js
JQuery:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#tabs").minitabs('slow', 'fade');
$("#tab1").click(function()
{
var $this = $(this);
if( $this.is('.removed') )
{
$this.removeClass('removed');
$this.addClass('selected');
$('#tab2').removeClass('selected');
$("#tab2").addClass('removed');
} else {
$('#tab2').removeClass('selected');
}
return false;
});
$("#tab2").click(function()
{
var $this = $(this);
if( $this.is('.removed') )
{
$this.removeClass('removed');
$this.addClass('selected');
$("#tab1").removeClass('selected');
$("#tab1").addClass('removed');
} else {
$('#tab1').removeClass('selected');
}
return false;
});
});
Body:
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="#quick-links" class="tab-l selected" id="tab1">tab-l</a></li>
<li><a href="#newsletter-link" class="tab-r removed" id="tab2">tab-r</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="quick-links">
<ul>
<li>Look at me getting myself all in a frenzy!</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="newsletter-link">
Sometimes it's would be nice if they reported the fun news!
</div>
</div>