jquery passing data from click

Question

I am trying to pass a data from one click function to another and have no idea how to make it. I have multiple divs but i will show you the main idea on two divs:

<div class="classname" id='prev'></div>
<div class="classname" id='next'></div>


$('#next).click(function() { 
   $('.classname').trigger('click')

})

$('#prev).click(function() { 
   $('.classname').trigger('click')

})


$('.classname').live('click', function () {
 [a lot of code here depending on who called click]


})

now, i would like to pass a variable like that (or somehow familiar

$('#prev').click(function() { 
   a = 1;
   $('.classname').trigger('click', a)

})


$('.classname').live('click', function (a) {
 if ( a == 1 ) { do something } else { do something else }
 [a lot of code here depending on who called click]

})

How can i send 'a' variable to live click to let it baheva differently depending on value of 'a' variable?

Answer 1

I think you're looking for this (see DEMO):

$('#prev').click(function () {
    $('.classname').trigger('click', [1])
});

$('.classname').live('click', function (event, param) {
    if (param == 1) {
        alert('do something');
    } else {
        alert('do something else');
    }
})​