I want to click a table element and to have it do x the first click and if clicked again perform Y
<td class='p' id='e1' onclick="myFunction2()"><img src='person2.png'/></td>
Thats what I have for my HTML for one click just now, but I wish to change that so that an item can be selected, then if clicked again for a deselect it would then trigger a different function.
I'm going to assume (you didn't say) that you want the function to be called to alternate with every click:
$('#e1').on('click', function() {
// retrieve current state, initially undefined
var state = $(this).data('state');
// toggle the state - first click will make this "true"
state = !state;
// do your stuff
if (state) {
// do this (1st click, 3rd click, etc)
} else {
// do that
}
// put the state back
$(this).data('state', state);
});
This uses jQuery's .data feature to store the button's click state in the button element itself.
Alternatively, you could use an external variable, but you should enclose the callback in a closure (in this case an immediately invoked function expression) to prevent the variable from becoming a global variable:
(function() {
var state;
$('#e1').on('click', function() {
state = !state;
if (state) {
// do this (1st click, 3rd click, etc)
} else {
// do that
}
});
})();
If the .on call and the state variable declaration are inside a jQuery document.ready handler that would have the same effect.
Pretty basic, let me know if this is close to what you want.
<div id="e1">Click Me</div>
.
(function() {
var click_track = 1;
$("#e1").click(function() {
if (click_track == 1)
alert("do something");
else if (click_track == 2) {
alert("do something else and reset click");
click_track = 0;
}
click_track++;
});
})();
demo: http://jsfiddle.net/HJwJf/
Link the toggle method with;
$("button").toggle(function(){
$("body").css("background-color","green");},
function(){
$("body").css("background-color","red");},
function(){
$("body").css("background-color","yellow");}
);
.toggle was deprecated in jQuery 1.8 and removed in jQuery 1.9You could create a new atribute on the HTML element named, for example, "clickCount", and use it inside your event handler as a counter.
Let's say you have a button like this one:
<button data-click-count='0' onclick="myFunction(this)">My Button</button>
And you have a function like this:
function myFunction(elt) {
// Gets the clicks count
var count = $(elt).data("click-count");
// Adds one to the click counter
$(elt).data("click-count", ++count);
if (count == 1)
doSomething();
else if (count == 2)
doSomethingElse();
}
Every time you click the button, you'll see an alert with the number of clicks you've made.
You can use the same method and apply it to your case.
data-XXX attributes for this, and jQuery has .data(). In either case, the changed data is stored as a property of the element (not an attribute) and does not change the DOM HTML source.Using a state variable. The state variable will swap between the values 0 and 1 on each click. Making use of state we can execute the corresponding function in fn array.
<td class='p' id='e1'><img src='person2.png'/></td>
$("td#e1.p").each(function(){
var state = 1, fn = [myFunction1, myFunction2];
$(this).click(function(){
return fn[state = 1 - state].apply(this, arguments);
});
});
Also, it's preferably to use proper event binding than inline JavaScript.
