Jquery adding and removing class dynamically

I am trying to add the class"selected" when a link is clicked and when the user click on the next link , I want to remove the previously "selected" class and add "selected" to the link clicked..

-Thanks in advance

$(document).ready(function() {
$('.news a').click(function(){
  $(this).addClass("selected");
});
});

<div class="news-w">
            <div class="news" id="getnews-1">
            <a href="#" >topic</a>
            </div>
            <d开发者_StackOverflow中文版iv class="news" id="getnews-2">
            <a href="#">topic</a>
            </div>      
            <div class="news" id="getnews-3">
            <a href="#" >topic</a>
            </div>      
            <div class="news" id="getnews-4">
            <a href="#">topic</a>
            </div>      
            <div class="news" id="getnews-5">
            <a href="#">topic</a>
            </div>                      
    </div>

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.news a').click(function(){
         $('.selected').removeClass('selected')
         $(this).addClass("selected");
    });
});

To add a toggle effect when adding a class or an ID, Use this.

$(document).ready(function() {
                var count = 1;
                $('#ddown').click(function(){
                count++;
                    if (count % 2 == 0) {
                         $('#ddown').addClass('dropup');
                         $('#ddown').removeClass("dropdown");
                    }else{
                        $('#ddown').removeClass("dropup");
                        $('#ddown').addClass("dropdown");
                    }
                });
            });

Yea i know, I came to the party very late.

Try

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('div.news-w div.news a').click(function(){
       $('div.news-w div.news a.selected').removeClass("selected");
       $(this).addClass("selected");
    });
});

Also you are having an invalid HTML. You have more than 1 element with the same ID.

Another alternate solution is:

var prevLink = null;
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.news a').click(function(){
         if(prevLink) prevLink.removeClass('selected');
         prevLink = $(this).addClass("selected");
    });
});

You can use this:

$('.news a').click(function(){
$('.news-w').find('.selected').removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass("selected");
});

it will be removed automatically just class selected in div class='news-w'

If u use this :

$('.selected').removeClass('selected');

when u want to add more element a into DOM out from div class='news-w' it will be removed too..