How to add background-color to text navigation on image slider? - slider

Question

I have an image slider that is controlled by text navigation. The text is highlighted orange when it's relative slide is current in the gallery. I would like the other text to have an inactive state with a black background but cannot get this to work!
(In case that didn't make much sense! Basically, I want background-color orange when current, background-color black when inactive.) THANKS
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.slider').each(function(e){
if(e == 0){
$(this).addClass('current');
}
$(this).attr('id', 'handle' + e);
})
$('.tabs li').each(function(e){
if(e == 0){
$(this).addClass('current'); //adds class current to 1st li
}
$(this).wrapInner('<a class="title"></a>'); //wraps list items in anchor tag
$(this).children('a').attr('href', '#handle' + e);//adds href to the anchors
t = $(this).children('a').text();
$('#handle' + e).append('<h2>' + t + '</h2>'); //adds h2 and text to big images
})
$('.tabs li a').click(function(){
c = $(this).attr('href');
if($(c).hasClass('current')){
return false;
}else{
showImage($(c), 20);
$('.tabs li').removeClass('current');
$(this).parent().addClass('current');
return false;
}
})
runRotateImages();
$("#featured").hover(
function(){
clearTimeout(xx);
},
function(){
runRotateImages();
}
)
})
function showImage(img, duration){
$('.slider').removeClass('current').css({
"opacity" : 0.0,
"zIndex" : 2
});
img.animate({opacity:1.0}, duration, function(){
$(this).addClass('current').css({zIndex:1});
});
}
function rotateImages(){
var curPhoto = $("div.current");
var nxtPhoto = curPhoto.next();
var curTab = $(".tabs li.current");
var nxtTab = curTab.next();
if (nxtPhoto.length == 0) {
nxtPhoto = $('#featured div:first');
nxtTab = $('.tabs li:first-child');
}
curTab.removeClass('current');
nxtTab.addClass('current');
showImage(nxtPhoto, 300);
}
function runRotateImages(){
xx = setInterval("rotateImages()", 5000);
}
I have added a jsfiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/n5EPM/3/
However, on jsfiddle it does not seem to automatically cycle through the images, not sure why, have no problems in browser.

Answer 1

Try using not() method: http://api.jquery.com/not/
Basically, you need to create a new class disabled
.disabled{
background-color:#000000;
}
Then, add the following line to your tabs.li's each loop:
$(".tabs li").not(".current").addClass('disabled'); //add disabled class for non-current tabs
At last you need to remove disabled class in the rotateimage() function before assigning current and then disable non-current again. like this:
curTab.removeClass('current');
nxtTab.removeClass('disabled'); //remove diabled class
nxtTab.addClass('current');
$(".tabs li").not(".current").addClass('disabled'); // disable non-current again
Working jsfiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/n5EPM/9/
This might not be the perfect solution but you will need to tweak it a little bit.
Hope this helps.