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Active state on list nav not rendering

For some reason I cannot figure out why the code below doesn't render with the active state.

Here is the code Im having an issue with:

css:
.vzt  ul.list { padding:0px;margin:0px; }
.vzt  ul li { float:left;list-style-type:none;padding:0px;margin:0px;height:45px; }
.vzt  ul li a.li { display:block;padding-top:15px;height:15px;padding-bottom:15px;border-right:1px solid #292929;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#000;margin:0 0 0 0;text-decoration:none;color:#999999; }
.vzt  ul li a.li:active { margin:0px;font-size:12px;padding-top:15px;height:15px;padding-bottom:15px;color:#0cdbca;font-weight:bold; }
.vzt  ul li a.li:visited { margin:0px;font-size:12px;padding-top:15px;height:15px;padding-bottom:15px;color:#999999;font-weight:bold; }
.vzt  ul li a.li:hover { margin:0px;font-size:12px;padding-top:15px;height:15px;padding-bottom:15px;color:#fff;font-weight:bold; }
.vzt  ul li a.last { border:none;background:#000;}
.vzt  ul li a.last:hover { border:none;background:#000;}

Html:
<ul class="list" id="tabs" style="padding-left:45px;margin:0px;">
	<li><a id="myHeader2" href="javascript:showonlyone('newboxes2');" class="li" style="width:121px;">link1</a></li>
	<li><a id="myHeader3" href="javascript:showonlyone('newboxes3');"  class="li" style="width:137px;">link2</a></li>
	<li><a id="myHeader4" href="javascript:showonlyone('newboxes4');" class="li" style="width:172px;">link3</a></li>
	<li><a id="myHeader5" href="javascript:showonlyone('newboxes5');" class="li" style="width:161px;">link4</a></li>
	<li><a id="myHeader6" href="javascript:showonlyone('newboxes6');" class="li" style="width:250px;">link5</a></li>
			</ul>

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Gurvinder Pal Singh

Can't make out from this much code unless you can share showonlyone method and related code

yando18

ASKER

Here is the script:


<script type="text/javascript">
function showonlyone(thechosenone) {
$$(".modal_content")[0].getElements("div[name=newboxes]").each(function(item, i){
if (item.get('id') == thechosenone) {
item.show();
} else {
item.hide();
}
});
}

</script>

Chris Stanyon

For pseudo classes like this, :active needs to come after :hover, which in turn needs to come after :link and :visited.

Make sure the order of the pseudo classes in your CSS are in the following order:

a:link
a:visited
a:hover
a:active

Gurvinder Pal Singh

rather than name attribute for the div, can you assign a class 'newboxes' and then
I guess what you are trying to do is, show the chosen one and hide the rest of divs with same class. Please confirm
function showonlyone(thechosenone)
{
$(".newboxes").hide();
$("#" + thechosenone ).show( );
}

yando18

ASKER

I've updated the code, and its work for the most part. The issue now is when you click the tab and click again the state is no longer active.

<script type="text/javascript">
var selectedIndex = 1;
var oldSelectedIndex = 1;
function showonlyone(thechosenone) {
      oldSelectedIndex = selectedIndex;
$$(".modal_content")[0].getElements("div[name=newboxes]").each(function(item, i){
if (item.get('id') == thechosenone) {
                  selectedIndex = i;
item.show();
} else {
item.hide();
}
});
      var tabs = $$(".modal_content")[0].getElements(".list li a");
      tabs[selectedIndex-1].addClass('active');
      tabs[oldSelectedIndex-1].removeClass('active');
      console.log(tabs);
}

</script>

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