I have the follow HTML markup <h4 class="filteredResultsTitle">Information Sources</h4> <ul style="display: block;"> <li>...</li> <li>...</li> <li>...</li> </ul>
I'm trying to create show/hide buttons against the 'Information Sources' <h4> element to toggle the <ul> element to disappear/ reappear. So far I have the following jquery.... $(document).ready(function() { $('h4.filteredResultsTitle').each(function() { $(this).append(' <span class="show">(<a href="#">show</a>)</ span>'); $(this).siblings('ul').hide(); $(this).children('span a').click(function() { $(this).parent().parent().siblings('ul').show(); $(this).text('hide'); return false; }); }); }); This doesn't seem to work though. However, if I change $(this).parent ().parent().siblings('ul').show(); into $(this).parent().siblings ('ul').show(); (remove a call the .parent() ) it does work, but surely this is incorrent as the markup is... <h4>Title <span class="show">(<a href="#">show</a>)</span></h4> ...and the parent of <a> is <span> and the parent of <span> is <h4>, yet it seems to jump straight from <a> to <h4> missing out the <span> when I remove a call to .parent(). What's more my click event is getting applied to the <span> and not the <a> as $(this).text('hide') causes the brackets and the <a>show</a> to be completely replaced. I remember a work colleague telling me that JQuery does have problems trying to select on elements that have been dynamically created (such as when using .append() in my case). Is this a know issue with JQuery, or am I totally doing something wrong. Cheers!