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Amy
Amy

Reputation: 7

Javascript hide/show layers

I am working with hiding and showing divs in javascript, basically I want to show one div, then when a button is clicked hide that div and show another. I can't quite figure the javascript out here's what I have at the moment but the second layer isnt showing when I click hide.

  <script language=javascript type='text/javascript'> 
    function hidediv() { 
    if (document.getElementById) { // DOM3 = IE5, NS6 
    document.getElementById('layer').style.visibility = 'hidden'; 
    document.getElementById('topbar').style.visibility = 'visisble';
    } 
    else { 
    if (document.layers) { // Netscape 4 
    document.layer.visibility = 'hidden'; 
    document.topbar.visibility = 'visible'; 

    } 
    else { // IE 4 
    document.all.layer.style.visibility = 'hidden'; 
    document.all.topbar.style.visibility = 'visible'; 
    } 
    } 
    }

    function showdiv() { 
    if (document.getElementById) { // DOM3 = IE5, NS6 
    document.getElementById('layer').style.visibility = 'visible'; 
 document.getElementById('topbar').style.visibility = 'hidden';
    } 
    else { 
    if (document.layers) { // Netscape 4 
    document.layer.visibility = 'visible'; 
document.topbar.visibility = 'hidden'; 
    } 
    else { // IE 4 
    document.all.layer.style.visibility = 'visible'; 
document.all.topbar.style.visibility = 'hidden';
    } 
    } 
    } 
    </script>

and css:

 #topbar {
    background-image: url(images/back.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
height: 30px;
margin-top: 20px;
visibility: hidden;
}

#show {
    float: right;
    padding-right: 40px;
    padding-top: 10px;
}

#hide {
    float: right;
    padding-right: 40px;
}

#layer {
background-image: url(images/back.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-bottom:20px;
overflow: auto;
}

using standard html links like:

<a href="javascript:hidediv()">Hide</a>

Any help would be appreciated, cheers!

EDIT

okay switched to something completely new but it seems to not show after hiding

<script type="text/javascript">

$(function(){ $('#showhide').click(function(){ $('#layer').toggle(); $('#topbar').toggle(); }); });

and

<a href="javascript:void(0);" id="showhide">Show/Hide</a>

and

<div id="layer"></div>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 15666

Answers (2)

rayhan
rayhan

Reputation: 227

This will probably help you: http://api.jquery.com/hide/ or the http://api.jquery.com/toggle/.

EDIT:

I am hoping that following example will help you.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function(){

    $("#button").click(function(){

         $("#a").toggle();
         $("#b").toggle();

     });

  });
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="a">
    I am a.
  </div>

  <div id="b" style="display: none">
  I am b.
  </div>

  <div id="button">
    <button>Show/Hide</button>
  </div>
</body>

</html>

Upvotes: 0

TJHeuvel
TJHeuvel

Reputation: 12618

You dont need jQuery for this.

Your functions could look like this:

function hideElement(elementId)
{
 document.getElementById(elementId).style.display = 'none';
}
function showElement(elementId)
{
 document.getElementById(elementId).style.display = 'block';
}

Then on page load, or in the css you can hide the first div. When the click happens you can then use showElement to show it.

Upvotes: 2

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