Beginner jQuery Questions (FF/IE issue)

I've been playing around a bit, with jQuery, just trying to do some replacing of text fields on click of a l开发者_Python百科ink and hiding/showing of content items as well. It seems to be working just fine in IE, but I can't seem to get it to work in FF.

My jQuery:

$(function() {

$(".articles a").click(function() {
    articlenumber = "1"
    $(articlenumber).css("display", "none");
    articlenumber = $(this).attr("id");
    articlename = $(this).attr("name");
    articlenumber = '".' + articlenumber + '"';
    //alert(articlenumber);
    //$(articlenumber).css("display", "inline");
    $(articlenumber).attr("style", "display:inline;")
    $(".articletitle").text(articlename)
}); 

And my HTML for this(simplified):

<a id="article1" name="Article Title1" href="#">Link</a>
<a id="article2" name="Article Title2" href="#">Link</a>
<div class="articlename">Title</div>
<div class="article1" style="display:none;">Text 1</div>
<div class="article2" style="display:none;">Text 2</div>

Any suggestions as to why this isn't working in FireFox? And anything I can clean up here?

$(".articles a").click(function() {
    articlenumber = "1"
    $(articlenumber).css("display", "none");
    articlenumber = $(this).attr("id");
    articlename = $(this).attr("name");
    articlenumber = '".' + articlenumber + '"';
    $(articlenumber).attr("style", "display:inline;")
    $(".articletitle").text(articlename)
});

Okay, in order of your script:

articlenumber = "1"

var articlenumber = 1;

$(articlenumber)

$(1) or $('1')

I'm not sure if these are your main problems (I removed your commented-out code), but fix the obvious, then we can talk more.

I would suggest, strongly, that you get hold of Firebug and watch its console as you load/interact with the page in Firefox. It'll tell you the main problems you're having. Also, as an addenda, I'd strongly suggest that you develop your sites/scripts with either Google Chrome (with the Web Inspector), Safari Webkit (as with Chrome), Mozilla Firefox (with Firebug, as above) and/or Opera (with Dragonfly). These browsers and web-development tools will more or less force you to develop your scripts properly. Once they're working, and valid, then try it in IE.

More often than not it'll work there if it works everywhere else, developing in IE first seems to allow you to develop bad habits, and error-prone JavaScript/jQuery, and then become confused, flustered or frustrated when the other browsers refuse to play ball.

Try changing this line:

$(".articletitle").text(articlename)

To

$(".articletitle").html(articlename)

Also I'm wondering if the class descriptors (.articletitle and .articlename) are correct? .articletitle class I do not see in the HTML - only in the javascript.. unless that's somewhere else.