The Big Programming Thread - Page 351

On September 12 2013 01:09 tofucake wrote:
Doesn't matter. You can make up attributes. Hell, you could use "divtohide" as an attribute, and get the value with prop() or attr()

On September 12 2013 01:14 Yoshi- wrote:


Only allowed in html5, and even then this is just bad practice

On September 12 2013 00:04 Yoshi- wrote:
Buttons don't have a "href" attribute.

On September 12 2013 01:19 HardlyNever wrote:


Technically no, but it works. If you're on a browser that doesn't support html 5, well, yeah...

I was just trying to give the guy a workable solution. If you want to give him a "better" one, feel free.

On September 12 2013 01:38 HardlyNever wrote:
Then feel free to post a working solution with that method.

Or you could just keep adding nothing constructive and keep nay-saying about how everything is wrong, like half the people that post in this thread.

The guy who asked the question can choose what he wants to do. It's not like I'm forcing him to use what I posted, it is just an option. Why don't you give him a better working option, rather than just criticizing?

On September 12 2013 01:59 HardlyNever wrote:
Criticizing a working solution, without posting a better working solution, is definitely less constructive.

On September 11 2013 20:37 adwodon wrote:
Got roped into doing a bit of webstuff by my boss, not sure why as it's not my specialty, but I told him you could easily show / hide sections of text so he decided that means I'm the web guy now.

On that note I have this:

      <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
         function blocking(nr)
         // for displaying or hiding parts of the page
         {
            displayNew = (document.getElementById(nr).style.display == 'none') ? 'block' : 'none';
            document.getElementById(nr).style.display = displayNew;
         }
      </script>

Then I have it used as follows:

         <div>
            Something <a href="" onclick="blocking('showHide1'); return false;">+</a>
            <div id="showHide1">
               Write text here...
            </div>
         </div>
         
         <div>
           Something else <a href="" onclick="blocking('showHide2'); return false;">+</a>
            <div id="showHide2">
               Write text here...
            </div>
         </div>

My question is straight forward enough, do I need to have showHide1 and showHide2 or can I do something to keep all the id's the same but still only act on the correct div tag. The way I have it working now is messy and I don't like it at all.

Appreciate any help

function toggle(sender) {
    var elm = sender.getElementsByClassName("someID")[0];
    elm.style.display = elm.style.display == 'none' ? 'block' : 'none';
}

<div class="showHide" onclick="toggle(this)">Some text
    <div class="someID">Write text here...</div>
</div>
<div class="showHide" onclick="toggle(this)">Sometext
    <div class="someID">Write text here...</div>
</div>

On September 12 2013 02:05 Yoshi- wrote:


There already is a working solution, that is perfectly fine and posting another one would just be redundant, and because of that not constructive.

Your solution is flawed and I pointed out the flaw, dunno how you could say that my post is less constructive than your original post.

And when you have such an hatred against non-constructiveness then why do you even argue in this thread, because this conversation is as useless as it can get.

On September 12 2013 03:08 tofucake wrote:
Pretty sure my solution had functioning buttons with differentiation between divs.

But there are plenty of people who know enough to say "that's not following the rules, even it works" but don't have the experience to provide a solution which does follow the rules. There's no need to get upset.

no need for bloated jquery

should have buttons or something. You could probably do toggle on first child instead if you want to have a bunch of .showHides

http://jsfiddle.net/yW7Yz/2/ like that

On September 12 2013 10:34 berated- wrote:
Hmm. This seems like bad advice. Why would you want to take the time that your js works perfectly in every browser when most web devs are doing it for you by using jquery? Use a cdn, use gzip compression, its not that big.