User interface design often makes use of showing and hiding blocks of content. It focuses one’s attention to the right thing, and it’s fun to do with jQuery.
I’ll show you how to toggle the visibility on a group of selected elements. I’ll build up from a simple case to the more complicated ultimate goal.
If you use Javascript, JQuery is a great framework to speed up your coding. It’s essentially a collection of really convenient shortcuts. It does more, since JQuery also handles a lot of browser compatibility issues. So, you don’t have to go through your JQuery code to update it for new browsers, all you have to do is download the new version of JQuery, and your old commands will learn new tricks.
Ah, speaking of downloading JQuery, you just might want to understand how JQuery works if you use it. The first time I tried to do this, I simply clicked on my JQuery src file link:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://peter-ajtai.com/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
… and this is what I saw:
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This is a quick post on using Javascript and the JQuery framework in particular within your WordPress theme. It’s quick and pretty painless. This is just for regular themes, not admin themes, plugins, or posts.
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