Simple/Quick (I hope) jQuery fix needed

[bfidd]

Hi all. I've been trying to teach myself jquery/javascript and am in the beginning stages still. I had found a great rollover function for jquery online that works perfectly. I was trying to add on to it though and am out of ideas due to my lack of knowledge. Was hoping for a point in the right direction or a fix if you know it.

The code below is very simple to see whats going on. I'm trying to add a function to it that will keep a button in a "selected" state based on what page you are on. The "hover" class that is getting called is what I need to have stay "up/selected".

I was trying to accomplish this by creating a variable called "thisLocation" but the accompanying function isn't working. I thought I could create an "if/else" function that would look for different values and then place the "thisLocation" variable on a few template pages and obviously change their values. Does that make sense?

I'm sure it's a beginners' issue and am really hoping someone can help me. Also, this is just the way I thought would be easiest to make this work, maybe you know something better???

The not working code I wrote starts at "var thisLocation...", everything before it is the function I found and is working perfectly.

Thanks in advance.

//<![CDATA[


$(document).ready(function () {

	//Append a div with hover class to all the LI
	$('#navBar li').append('<div class="hover"><\/div>');


	$('#navBar li').hover(
		
		//Mouseover, fadeIn the hidden hover class	
		function() {
			
			$(this).children('div').fadeIn('3000');	
		
		}, 
	
		//Mouseout, fadeOut the hover class
		function() {
		
			$(this).children('div').fadeOut('1000');	
		
	})

});

var thisLocation = 'pageone';

if (thisLocation == 'pageone')
	{
		$(document).getElementsByName('buttonone').append('<div class="hover"><\/div>');
	}


//]]>

[bfidd]

No one at all?! Ah. Is it that complicated an issue? I've still been looking for a solution but have yet to find it.