How do I make different texts to appear in after clicking x-times?

Question

I want to show some text within a class for each click but keep the clicky-class. Shortly, if you click 2 times, you will get a div-text "You clicked two times", you will still be able to click a third time, then you will get "You clicked three times", until the fifth time when everything will hide. Is there any simpel way to do this? I tried with this but couldn't get it to work.

var clicks = 0;
$('.clicky').on('click', function()
    {
    clicks++;
        if(clicks >= 3)
        {
        $(this).add($('.background')).add($('.hello'));
        }

        else(clicks >= 5)
        {
        $(this).add($('.background')).hide();
        }
        });​

http://jsfiddle.net/sLAzY/ This is a working example of the hide function.

Hope you understand what I mean
Have a nice day!

Answer 1

Use a switch statement. Note, because your elements only have class attributes the selectors can match multiple elements. Just something to keep in mind.

Fiddle for testing

var clicks = 0;
$('.clicky').on('click', function(){
    var string;
    clicks++;
    switch(clicks){
    case 1:
        string = "You clicked one time";
        $('.clicky').text(string);
        break;
    case 2:
        string = "You clicked two times";
        $('.clicky').text(string);
        break;
    case 3:
        string = "You clicked three times";
        $('.clicky').text(string);
        break;
    case 4:
        string = "You clicked four times";
        $('.clicky').text(string);
        break;
    case 5:
        $(this).add($(".background")).hide();
        break;
    }
});​

Answer 2

Does this help you. I used JQuery data() instead of a global variable. So this will help you to have multiple elements of clicky class.

<div class="clicky">
    aaaa 
</div>
<div class="clicky">
    bbbb
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('.clicky').data('times', 0);
$('.clicky').on('click', function(){
    var times = parseInt($(this).data('times')) + 1;
    $(this).data('times', times);
    if( times >= 3 && times<5)
        $(this).addClass('background').addClass('hello');
    else if (times >= 5){
        $(this).hide('fast');
    }
});  
</script>