Hover with "write less, do more"

Hover with "write less, do more"

Hello!
I'm new to jQuery and i have something like this:

  1. $(document).ready(function() {
  2. $('#open').hover(function(){
  3. $('#nav_ul').slideDown(300);
  4. },function(){
  5. $('#nav_ul').hide();
  6. });
  7. });
It all works fine but...
The problem is that i have several #open and #nav_ul elements, and i don't want to write different CSS id's like "#open1" "#open2" etc. 

I'd like to do the thing with just one CSS id like on my code.

Could anyone help me please?
Regards