[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
jQuery has built in show() / hide() methods. The syntax would look something like this: $('#someElement').show(); $('#someElement').hide(); Where someElement was a container with an ID. andy _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Blomstrom

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
As a side note, I personally find your ms free note a little distasteful. I'm no MS fanboy, but it seem a little self-serving to post that note. andy _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Blomstrom Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:11 PM

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread David Blomstrom
That's the best example I have, as there's currently no content in my Links open/shut script. As a former teacher, I found some of the things Microsoft did to my students distasteful. I decided to speak out, and I never apologize for speaking the truth. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Andy

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
You are completely entitled to your opinion, more power to you. andy _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Blomstrom Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:29 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread David Blomstrom
Here's a condensed version of my code... div class=collapsible id=MSFree div id=trigger2 class=triggerspanV/spanMicrosoft-Free/div /div div id='menu2' class='menu'This website was designed/div So I would convert your code to this?: $('#MSFree').show(); $('#MSFree').hide(); Would I just add

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread Hector Virgen
The .show() and .hide() functions are on-demand functions -- they'll happen immediately when the code is called. What you need to do is observe the user's actions and show/hide the div based on what they are doing. For that, you can use .mouseover() and .mouseout with callback functions. The

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread David Blomstrom
So should the code in my head section look something like this?: script src='.$BaseURL.'/1A/js/jquery-1.2.6.min.js type=text/javascript/script script src='.$BaseURL.'/1A/js/tablesorter/jquery.tablesorter.js type=text/javascript/script script language=JavaScript type=text/JavaScript

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread Hector Virgen
That looks good, did it work? -Hector On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM, David Blomstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So should the code in my head section look something like this?: script src='.$BaseURL.'/1A/js/jquery-1.2.6.min.js type=text/javascript/script script

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
_ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Blomstrom Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:57 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function So should the code in my head section look something like this?: script src

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread David Blomstrom
No, it isn't working. I deleted the JavaScript that previously controlled it, then I looked for any CSS styles that might have been interfering with it. I looked at the page with the Firebug console, and it doesn't report any errors. I know I'm conneced to my JQuery scripts because some JQuery

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread David Blomstrom
Yes, it does work. I just have a couple follow up questions. When I first load the page, the element that's supposed to be hidden is displayed. Is there a way to modify it so that it doesn't display until someone mouses over the yellow MS-Free thingy? I put a working example online at

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread Andy Matthews
(); }); } and you'd call it like this: mouseExpand('MSFree','menu2'); andy _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Blomstrom Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:04 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut

[jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function

2008-12-10 Thread David Blomstrom
Blomstrom *Sent:* Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:04 PM *To:* jquery-en@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [jQuery] Re: Need Open/Shut Function Yes, it does work. I just have a couple follow up questions. When I first load the page, the element that's supposed to be hidden is displayed