Toggle multiple divs one by one jquery

Question

What i am trying to do is toggle between different div's. It's kinda hard to explain but i'll give it a try.

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When the page loads there would be div that is visible and 4 with display:none. And there would be a menu. link 1 would show the first div and hide all others. Then when clicking link 2 the div that is visible will hide and div2 would show. When clicking link 3 the div that is visible will hide and div3 would show and so on. Basically only one div shown at a time.

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I wrote this but it works only when there are 2 divs.

$(function () {
  $('#link').click(function () { 
    $('#div1, #div2').toggle();
  });
});

but this would only show the hidden div and hide the one that is shown.

Okay, i did it and found out that it can be done much easier. Here's what i did. It's not very elegant but it works.

$(document).ready(function () {
  $('.slidingDiv').hide();
  $('.show_hide').show();

  $('.show_hide').click(function () {
    $('.slidingDiv').slideToggle();
    $('.slidingDiv2').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv3').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv4').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv5').hide('slow');
  });
});

$(document).ready(function () {
  $('.slidingDiv2').hide();
  $('.show_hide2').show();

  $('.show_hide2').click(function () {
    $('.slidingDiv2').slideToggle();
    $('.slidingDiv').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv3').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv4').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv5').hide('slow');
  });
});

$(document).ready(function () {
  $('.slidingDiv3').hide();
  $('.show_hide3').show();

  $('.show_hide3').click(function () {
    $('.slidingDiv3').slideToggle();
    $('.slidingDiv').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv2').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv4').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv5').hide('slow');
  });
});

$(document).ready(function () {
  $('.slidingDiv4').hide();
  $('.show_hide4').show();

  $('.show_hide4').click(function () {
    $('.slidingDiv4').slideToggle();
    $('.slidingDiv').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv2').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv3').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv5').hide('slow');
  });
});

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.slidingDiv5').hide();
  $('.show_hide5').show();

  $('.show_hide5').click(function () {
    $('.slidingDiv5').slideToggle();
    $('.slidingDiv').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv2').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv3').hide('slow');
    $('.slidingDiv4').hide('slow');
  });
});

And <a href="#" class="show_hide"><span class="nav">link</span></a>

Answer 1

If you define your links as follows:

<a href="#" data-toggle="#div1">link 1</a>
<a href="#" data-toggle="#div2">link 2</a>

<div id="div1">div 1</div>
<div id="div2">div 2</div>

Then you can make things easy: http://jsfiddle.net/A8Ymj/.

$("a[data-toggle]").on("click", function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();  // prevent navigating
  var selector = $(this).data("toggle");  // get corresponding selector from data-toggle
  $("div").hide();
  $(selector).show();
});