Hi Lucien,
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You're on the right track, but instead of doing this:
$("this.following-sibling").slideDown("slow");
try this:
$(this).next().slideDown("slow");
--Karl
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Karl Swedberg
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On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Lucien Stals wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> (Yes, I'm a newbie to jQuery)
>
> I have the following in my page...
>
> $(document).ready(function()
> {
> $("div.singleEvent").hide();
>
> $("span.singleEventTitle").click(function()
> {
> $("div:hidden").slideDown("slow");
> return false;
> });
> });
>
> Now this works to hide all the "singleEvent" div, but what I want
> is to
> show (slideDown) the previously hidden body of an event when somebody
> clicks on the still visible event title. But I'm just not getting the
> expression language. How do I select the following sibling of the
> event
> title that was clicked so that not *all* of the hidden elements are
> show
> at once?
>
> I imagined it was something like...
>
> $("following-sibling").slideDown("slow");
> or
> $("this.following-sibling").slideDown("slow");
>
> But they just aren't working for me :(
>
>
> In the html, the events look something like...
>
> <span class="singleEventTitle">title</span>
> <div class="singleEvent">event details</div>
>
> --
>
> Lucien Stals
> Multimedia/Web Developer
> Academic Development and Support
> Swinburne University of Technology
> PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia
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>
>
> Education is only the beginning.
> Let's get on with it.
>
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