Jquery .html() replacing EVERY class, want it to do 1 per post in loop

Hi there,

Spent 2 days trying to figure this out (working on a little personal side project to learn about jQuery): in the code below the true condition for the “if” will cause ALL <div class="commentcount"> to read “castor” … if the condition is false it will read “pollux” on ALL <div class="commentcount">.

I have solved this issue before by using the $(this) provided by jQuery unfortunately this time I can’t figure out how to get it in there without breaking the if / else from actually making the replacement.

Please note that I have constructed this example to be simple, this is not production code…

<script>
//<![CDATA[

var postID = <?php the_id() ?>;	

if (postID > 0) {
	$(".commentcount").html('castor');
}

else {
	$(".commentcount").html('pollux');
}

//]]>
</script>