I'm dumb. This does work if you use the right selector. Based on the
structure of my document, $('#foo dl') would never return anything
since my definition list is a sibling of the header, not a child of.
DOH!On May 1, 5:45 am, Jörn Zaefferer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Stockton schrieb: > > > window.location returns the current URL in the browser's locator. > > window.location.hash refers to the specific part of the page that the > > URL refers too (the part that follow the #). So if you're visiting > >http://example.org/index.html#foothen window.location would return > >http://example.org/index.html#foowhile window.location.hash returns > > only #foo. You'll notice that the hash looks exactly like an ID > > selector which I am hoping to use on the following code: > > > <div id="foo" class="accordionMenu"> > > <h3>Some Menu Item</h3> > > <dl> > > .... > > </dl> > > </div> > > [repeat for each item in the menu each with a different value for ID] > > > Now if I am able to use the value of window.location.hash as a > > selector then I should get something similar to $('#foo dl').show(). > > Unfortunately though it appears that the jQuery method ($) only wants > > to accept strings and objects. > > Ok, looks like some debugging is necessary, because I can't see any > obvious flaw here. Have you checked how the concatenated selector looks > like? What it actually selects? I use Firebug for that all the time, eg. > console.log( $(window.location.hash+' dl') ) > > -- > Jörn Zaefferer > > http://bassistance.de
