Hi there, On 8/29/07, machineghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Mochikit Style function "showElement" works as follows: > <code>this.showElement = m.partial(this.setDisplayForElement, > 'block');</code> > > In other words, it sets the display style of the element to "block". > I suspect the reason it does this is because whoever wrote the > function figured "we can't know what display type the element really > should have, and 'block' is the most common, so ... let's just use > that". However, there is another way. > > If this function were instead: > <code>this.showElement = m.partial(this.setDisplayForElement, '');</ > code> > (in other words, if it set the element's display style to an empty > string) > > it would set the element's display style to nothing, which would > effectively set it back to whatever it was originally ("block" for a > block-level element, "inline" for an inline one, etc.). This would > enable the use of the hideElement/showElement functions on any > element, not just block-level ones.
Does this empty-string method work across all major browsers? > So my question to the group is, am I missing a major flaw with this > proposal? Or is the whole "block" thing just a matter of not knowing > about the empty string option? The recommended way, as documented, is to use a CSS class with a display: none and override show/hideElement and isVisible to appropriate invocations of remove/add/hasElementClass. Since adding CSS rules is (was) not easy in a cross browser manner, the workaround with display block/none was left instead and the class thing noted in the docs. I suspect most people follow that note anyways.. Arnar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---