Within your click function, "this" refers to the element that was clicked (in this case, either #bridge1 or #bridge2). You can then get the (immediate) children of that element that match the selector 'p' and toggle that.
$('#bridge1,#bridge2').click(function(){ $(this).children('p').toggle(); return false; }); -- Hector On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:23 PM, lukas <animod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How can I pick an id element (here #bridge1,#bridge2) and toggle its > child (here a p element) without actually using the id element as > parent? > 'this > p' apparently does not work. > > $('#bridge1,#bridge2').click(function(){ > $('this > p').toggle(); > return false; > }); > > Thanks for your help!