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Sal
Sal

Reputation: 3269

toggle element doesn't work with jQuery

I'd like to execute a JQuery toggle function (it toggles an input field to make it accessible to the client) only if a certain condition is met. (I'm testing for the condition using JavaScript.) Can I do this? For some reason, the JQuery toggle function doesn't work when I set it inside the JavaScript function, so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if this can't be done at all.

<script type="text/javascript">
function conditionalToggle()
{
   if (conditionIsMet)
   {
      // JQuery toggle call here
   }
}
</script>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2011

Answers (3)

Ikrom
Ikrom

Reputation: 5123

You can do it when DOM is ready, if you've still problem, you can do also like that:

<script type="text/javascript">
   $(window).load(function() {
        conditionIsMet && $('#elementId').toggle();
   });
</script>

Upvotes: 0

gdoron
gdoron

Reputation: 150313

You probably don't use jQuery right, or don't execute the function, or (the most common mistake of new jQuery users) don't wait for the DOM to be ready:

function foo(){
    if ("foo" === "foo")
        $('#elementId').toggle();
}

$(function(){ // functions inside $() runs after the DOM is ready.
    foo();
});

Where elementId is a place holder to your element id.
Simple DEMO

Note that you can use this toggle overload:

$('#elementId').toggle(showTheElementOrNot);

toggle( showOrHide )
showOrHide A Boolean indicating whether to show or hide the elements.

jQuery docs

Upvotes: 3

adeneo
adeneo

Reputation: 318352

jQuery should work if inside a ready() function

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
   function conditionalToggle(){
      if (conditionIsMet) {
         $(element).toggle();
      }
   }
});
</script>

or just do:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function conditionalToggle() {
       if (conditionIsMet) {
          element.style.display = element.style.display=='block' ? 'none' : 'block';
       }
    {
</script>

Upvotes: 1

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