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dan
dan

Reputation: 45632

How do you make up and down arrows highlight items in a list? (jQuery)

I have a stack of <DIV> siblings and I want to let the user use the up and down arrows to move up and down the list and "highlight" an item. Only one item should be highlighted at any given moment.

What's the easiest way to do this?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 9187

Answers (4)

Hussein
Hussein

Reputation: 42818

$(document).keyup(function(e) {
    var $hlight = $('div.hlight'), $div = $('div');
    if (e.keyCode == 40) {
        $hlight.removeClass('hlight').next().addClass('hlight');
        if ($hlight.next().length == 0) {
            $div.eq(0).addClass('hlight')
        }
    } else if (e.keyCode === 38) {
        $hlight.removeClass('hlight').prev().addClass('hlight');
        if ($hlight.prev().length == 0) {
            $div.eq(-1).addClass('hlight')
        }
    }
})

Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/wMdML/8/

Upvotes: 13

user463535
user463535

Reputation:

Here's one way to do it without using IDs or classes. A working jsfiddle example is available here (make sure to click on the Result pane first).

The javascript:

var $currentDiv = $("#myContainer").children().first();
$currentDiv.css("background", "red");

$("html").keyup( function(keyEvent) {
    if (keyEvent.keyCode == 40 ) {
        var $nextDiv;
        if ($currentDiv.next().size() == 0) {
            $nextDiv = $("#myContainer").children().first();
        }
        else {
            $nextDiv = $currentDiv.next();
        }
        $currentDiv.css("background", "");
        $nextDiv.css("background", "red");
        console.log($nextDiv);
        console.log($currentDiv);
        $currentDiv = $nextDiv;

    }
    else if (keyEvent.keyCode == 38) {
        var $previousDiv;
        if ($currentDiv.prev().size() == 0)
            $previousDiv = $("#myContainer").children().last();
        else {
            $previousDiv = $currentDiv.prev();
        }
        $currentDiv.css("background", "");
        $previousDiv.css("background", "red");
        $currentDiv = $previousDiv;
    }
});

The html:

<div id="myContainer">
    <div> Div 1 </div>
    <div> Div 2 </div>
    <div> Div 3 </div>
    <div> Div 4 </div>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

mattsven
mattsven

Reputation: 23263

OK...

var highlight = function(upOrDown){
    var highlighted = $("#daddyDiv > div.higlighted");

    if(highlighted[0] == null){
        //If nothing is highlighted, highlight the first child
        $("#daddyDiv > div:first").addClass("highlighted");
    } else {
        //Highlight the next thing
        if(upOrDown == "down" && highlighted.index() != $("#daddyDiv > div").length()){
            $("#daddyDiv > div").eq(highlighted.index()+1).addClass("highlighted");
            $("#daddyDiv > div.higlighted").removeClass("highlighted");
        } else if(upOrDown == "up" && highlighted.index() != 1){
            $("#daddyDiv > div").eq(highlighted.index()-1).addClass("highlighted");
            $("#daddyDiv > div.higlighted").removeClass("highlighted");
        }
    }
};

//Assuming you are using up/down buttons...

$("#upButton").click(function(){ highlight("up"); });
$("#downButton").click(function(){ highlight("down"); });

//Using the arrow keys...

$("body").keyup(function(e){
    if(e.keyCode == "40"){
        //Down key
        highlight("down");
    } else if(e.keyCode == "38"){
        //Up key
        highlight("down");
    }
});

Upvotes: 2

pimvdb
pimvdb

Reputation: 154838

I made this up: http://jsfiddle.net/JPy76/.

It basically removes a highlighted class when moving up/down and adds it to the next/previous. Some extra code is necessary for moving down after the last one / moving up after the first one.

$('body').keydown(function(e) {
    if(e.keyCode === 40) {
        if($('.highlighted').next().length) {
            $('.highlighted').removeClass('highlighted')
            .next().addClass('highlighted');
        }
        else {
            $('.highlighted').removeClass('highlighted');
            var d = $('div');
            d.length = 1;
            d.addClass('highlighted');
        }
    }
    if(e.keyCode === 38) {
        if($('.highlighted').prev().length) {
            $('.highlighted').removeClass('highlighted')
            .prev().addClass('highlighted');
        }
        else {
            $('.highlighted').removeClass('highlighted');
            var d = $('div');
            d = $(d[d.length - 1]);
            d.addClass('highlighted');
        }
    }
});

Upvotes: 1

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