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jQuery Event Delegation
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<!DOCTYPE html> | |
<html> | |
<head> | |
<title>Nav Delegation</title> | |
<style type="text/css"> | |
#member-error { | |
background: #c44a17; | |
padding: 10px; | |
color: #fff; | |
font-weight: 800; | |
} | |
.hidden { display: none; } | |
.members-only { | |
color: #c44a17; | |
} | |
</style> | |
</head> | |
<body> | |
<div id="wrapper"> | |
<div id="member-error" class="hidden"> | |
You must be a member! | |
</div> | |
<nav id="nav-main"> | |
<ul> | |
<li><a href="http://google.com">Projects</a></li> | |
<li><a href="http://google.com" class="members-only">Forums</a></li> | |
<li><a href="http://google.com">Search</a></li> | |
<li><a href="http://google.com" class="members-only">Rewards</a></li> | |
</ul> | |
</nav> | |
<article> | |
<header> | |
<h1>Cupcake Ipsum</h1> | |
</header> | |
<p>Candy chocolate bar muffin lollipop jelly marshmallow lemon drops chocolate. I love pudding marshmallow applicake donut toffee apple pie donut.</p> | |
<p>Candy canes danish sesame snaps liquorice I love. Tart sugar plum liquorice marzipan gingerbread croissant dessert. Ice cream I love pie lollipop topping I love.</p> | |
</article> | |
</div> | |
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script> | |
<script type="text/javascript"> | |
$(document).ready(function() { | |
// event delegation | |
// apply a handler to the #nav-main element that will only fire when an <a> is clicked | |
$('#nav-main').on('click', 'a', function(e) { | |
// we get the specific <a> tag from e.target | |
// wrapping e.target in $ gives us a jQuery object | |
var a = $(e.target); | |
// we can call jQuery functions on the object now to see if it's a members only link | |
if (a.hasClass('members-only')) { | |
e.preventDefault(); | |
$('#member-error').removeClass('hidden'); | |
setTimeout(function() { | |
$('#member-error').addClass('hidden'); | |
}, 1000); | |
} | |
}); | |
}); | |
</script> | |
</body> | |
</html> |
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