Hi Jannik, How would your example be adapted to use mouseovers and then hide the div once the mouse is off either the li or the div.
I posted a question earlier today "show/hide flyout menu panel" and it seems your approach gets me half way there. The application is a flyout menu - using divs to hold scrollable list items. Regards Sean sean ronan activepixels office : 01245 399 499 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : activepixels.co.uk Activepixels is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 5081009. Registered office: Suite SF8, The Heybridge Business Centre, 110 The Causeway, Maldon, Essex, CM1 3TY. -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jannik Sent: 12 February 2008 14:25 To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: controlling li-items with unique IDs and trigger corresponding DIVs Try this: $(document).ready(function (){ $('div.page').hide(); $('#menu li').click(function (){ $('div.page').hide(); $('#div'+$(this).attr('id')).show(); }); }); <ul id="menu"> <li id="link1">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> <li id="link2">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> <li id="link3">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> <li id="link4">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> </ul> <div id="divlink1" class="page">Div 1</div> <div id="divlink2" class="page">Div 2</div> <div id="divlink3" class="page">Div 3</div> <div id="divlink4" class="page">Div 4</div> On Feb 12, 2:37 pm, schnuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi guys, > > hope someone can give me a hint for this. if i had an unordered list > as shown below, where the li-items had unique IDs - is there any way > that we check which li-items has been clicked so depending on that, we > could show/animate a corresponding, unique DIV (each li-items would > have its own corresponding DIV)? these DIVs would be preloaded and > hidden via CSS somewhere on the page. > > <ul> > <li id="link1">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> > <li id="link2">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> > <li id="link2">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> > <li id="link3">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> > <li id="link4">Lorem ipsum dolor</li> > </ul> > > or do the li-items need to go into HREFs to accomplish this? > > i know this might be very simply to solve, but i just can;t figure it > out. any help very appreciated. > > many thanks.