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On a website I remeber seeing a news feature where the news would be a bar with a title and you clicked it and it would expand showing the message and other information and the code used was javascript:show but I don't understand how it works (as the news was got from a mysql database) how would this be done?
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Which part of your giant sentence do you need further help on?
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I want to now how to code something like that so i can make expanding stuff.
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You do just what you said: have server-side code perform a query or stored procedure, render the results in a DIV, and toggle the visibility of that div using JavaScript.
Again, which part do you have a question about?
Again, which part do you have a question about?
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So it would be?
<a href="javascript:show('news1');">Welcome</a><br>
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welcome to the site
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You said the result should be rendered in a Div, what I replace the "Div" with a "tr" tag?
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Originally Posted by Ries
So it would be?
<a href="javascript:show('news1');">Welcome</a><br> <div id="news1"> welcome to the site </div>
That would be the HTML part of it, yes.
Then, you'll need CSS assigned to the DIV in order to make it initially invisible.
You'll need to write a JavaScript function named "show", which accepts the ID of the div and changes the style to "visible".
You'll need the server-side code to retrieve "welcome to the site" from a database and write the above output.
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Originally Posted by havilah
You said the result should be rendered in a Div, what I replace the "Div" with a "tr" tag?
Then you would get a badly broken HTML fragment. You really don't want elements that will have their display and/or visibility properties dynamically changed, within a table.
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