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Javascript pop up on multiple elements

I am trying to build a pop-up function written in JavaScript but I feel the code could be better.

So I have two thumbnails and when click it shows the corresponding image but bigger.

I want to build a page with about 20 of these but I feel there will be a lot of code repetition and I am stuck.

My code is here:

https://codesandbox.io/s/i8b1s

Here is my JS:

/*

The goal of this is to simplify the JS code as when I add more images
I do want to keep duplicating code. 


*/

// Tesing

const targetNum = document.querySelectorAll("target");
console.log(targetNum);

// Original code below
// Target 1
const target1 = document.querySelector(".counterNo1");
const target2 = document.querySelector(".counterNo2");

// Target 1 Pop Up
const target1MainImage = document.querySelector(".mainImage1");
const target2MainImage = document.querySelector(".mainImage2");

// Close buttons
const close1 = document.querySelector(".closeBTN1");
const close2 = document.querySelector(".closeBTN2");

//Target 1 Clicked Event
target1.addEventListener("click", function () {
  console.log("Target 1");
  target1MainImage.classList.remove("hide");
  target1MainImage.classList.add("show");
});
//Target 2 Clicked Event
target2.addEventListener("click", function () {
  console.log("Target 2");
  target2MainImage.classList.remove("hide");
  target2MainImage.classList.add("show");
});

// Close
//Close Event 1
close1.addEventListener("click", function () {
  console.log("Close Target 1");
  target1MainImage.classList.add("hide");
  target1MainImage.classList.remove("show");
});
//Close Event 2
close2.addEventListener("click", function () {
  console.log("Close Target 2");
  target2MainImage.classList.add("hide");
  target2MainImage.classList.remove("show");
});

As you can see if I have more that one pop up, I am duplicating event listeners etc and I do not want a lot of dup code for elements. This is where I am stuck.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on what to do please?

Thanks,

Ben.

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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so what you can do is create a common popup and let there be 20 targets on the page. so all you have to do then is

// here create a variable to map the location or src value of bigger image

const ImageMapper = {
   one: '/images/one.jpg'
.....
}

// then create the function which calls the popup and set the src of the image element in it

const openPopup = (opener) => {
   popupImage.src = ImageMapper[opener]
   popup.classList.add('show')
}

// and in the poup add a button which closes the popup so that you dont have to write multiple functions just to close a single popup

const closePopup = () => {
    popup.classList.add('hide')
}

// and last in each of the possible element that will open the popup just add the onclick handler like

target1.onclick = () => {
    openPopup('one')
}

// this will require a lot less code then what you will have to write
about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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