Thank you - this will be a huge help to me moving forward. This solution
works and more importantly I understand it so I can build off it. This is my
first mailing list and so far, I dig ;->
-- TB
Matt Stith wrote:
>
> yeah, same idea, just use a period instead of a #
>
> On 1/26/07, chango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, i use this for ID atributte all the time, i hope it help for your
>> case:
>>
>> function toggle(className) {
>> $('#'+className).toggle(); // this doesn't work obviously
>> }
>>
>> ToddB23 wrote:
>> >
>> > Guessing this is a fundamental, and I have read the docs but...
>> >
>> > Can I pass a variable to JQuery to use as a class name?
>> >
>> > ie -
>> >
>> > function toggle(className) {
>> > $(className).toggle(); // this doesn't work obviously
>> > }
>> >
>> > Since the class name has to be in quotes I'm confused as to how to put
>> > anything but an actual string into JQuery - ($('.className').toggle();.
>> >
>> > If it help to explain, I ended up working around it by making an array
>> > from the getElementsByName and passing that array to JQuery:
>> >
>> > function toggleTree(e,conversation_num) {
>> > $(e).toggleClass('expanded');
>> > var alerts_row_name = "alerts_" + conversation_num;
>> > var alerts_rows = document.getElementsByName(alerts_row_name);
>> > $(alerts_rows).toggle();
>> > }
>> >
>> > Thanks, TB
>> >
>>
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