Glen, When I started trying to do this with jquery this morning I tried using toggle but instead got bogged down trying to make is work as part of an 'animate' hash...
Your solution works beautifully! Thanks very much :-) Ben, I'd been putting alerts in to try and figure out why my if statement wasn't working. Strangely, if you assign a string "#abc" to the css property using the .css() construct, when you print out the result with an alert it gets converted to "rgb(1,2,3)" which is odd but I'm sure there's an explanation... Of course this is all moot if the lovely toggle thingie does all the legwork for you:-) Thanks for you help :-) Dug On Aug 7, 3:24 pm, "Glen Lipka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may want to check out the Toggle function. It might eliminate the need > for the IF. > Maybe even the toggleClass() method? http://www.jquery.com/api > > $(".doSetSelect").toggle(function(){ > $(this).parents(".def_set").addClass("selected");},function(){ > > $(this).parents(".def_set").removeClass("selected"); > > }); > > Of course you don't need to use the css class, but it's sometimes easier > that way, especially if you have several rules on it. > > I didnt follow the part you said about display block, but you can do the > following: > $(this).parents(".def_set:visible").addClass("selected"); > :visible means "Only find the ones that are not not display:none." > > Glen > > On 8/7/07, dug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > I've been faffing with this thing all morning. The more I faff, the > > closer I get to using getElementById. The following should toggle the > > background colour of a submit button's parent (a containing 'span' tag > > pair set to display:block) > > > I am obviously missing something very simple. > > > $(".doSetSelect").click(function(event) { > > > if ($(this).parents(".def_set").css("backgroundColor") == > > "rgb(238,238,238)") > > { $(this).parents(".def_set").css({backgroundColor: > > "rgb(255,255,255)"}) } > > else > > { $(this).parents(".def_set").css({backgroundColor: > > "rgb(238,238,238)"}) } > > > return false; > > }); > > > In expectation of kicking myself ;-) > > > All the best, > > Dug
