Sliding divs... =P

simolokid · 10-07-2010, 04:35 PM

Hi there,

I'm having some trouble with closing / opening / moving divs.

The idea is that when i click on a persons name, to the right of that opens a div of about 400 x 400 which contains their biography.

Basicly, the persons names in the black boxes over in this example:
http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/jquery-accordion-menu/#
and then when u click on the black 'link', it opens up 1 submenu item containing and img or anything. (so 1 <li><img src =' bla ' ></li>

And to the right as specified earlier, of about the same height as the div with biography titles and the 1 expanded picture at a time, which will initially not be visible ( since no person is selected yet. )

Ofcourse I have some jquery code, but Its not my best..
Now it just moves it to the right... >.<

Any help ?

Greatly appreciated!
the jquery:

Code:

$(document).ready(function() {
  var $topLinks2 = $('#tab-nav-2 > ul > li > a');
  var $topLinksbio = $('#tab-nav-2 > ul > li > ul > li');
  $topLinks2.click(function() {
    var $parentItem = $(this).parent(),
        slideAmt = $(this).next().width(),
        direction;
    $topLinks2.removeClass('expanded');
    $topLinksbio.hide();
    if (parseInt($parentItem.css('marginLeft'), 10) > 0) {
      direction = '-=';
    } else {
      $(this).addClass('expanded');
      $topLinksbio.show();
      direction = '+=';
    }
    $parentItem
      .animate({marginLeft: direction + slideAmt}, 400)
        .siblings()
        .animate({marginLeft: '0'}, 300);
    return false;
  });
});

The css:

Code:

/* nav wrapper */
.container {
      width: 610px;
      margin: 40px auto;
      text-align: left;
    }
    .tab-nav {
      width: 610px;
      overflow: hidden;
      background: #ddd url(tab-slide.png) no-repeat 0 0;
    }
    
    .tab-nav ul {
      position: relative;
      float: left; 
      width: 1600px;
      margin-right: 535px; 
      padding-left: 0;
      list-style-type: none;
      background-color: #fff;
    }
    .tab-nav li { 
      float: left;
      clear: left; 
    }

    .tab-nav a {
      display: block;
      width: 200px;
      border-right: 1px solid #ddd;
      height: 25px;
      line-height: 24px;
      float: left;
      text-align: center;
      text-decoration: none;
      color: #000;
      background:  url(tab-slide.png) no-repeat 2px -194px;
    }
    .tab-nav a.expanded {
      background-position: 2px -244px;
    }
/* second level */
    .tab-nav ul ul { float: left; background-color: #333; width: auto; margin-left: 0;}
    .tab-nav li li {clear: none;}
    .tab-nav li li a { color: #fff; width: 100px; background-image: none;}

The html:

Code:

    <div id="tab-nav-2" class="tab-nav">

      <ul>
        <li>
          <a href="#">Person 1</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Biography</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="#">Person 2</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Biography</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="#">Person 3</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Biography</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
 		<li>
          <a href="#">Person 4</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Biography</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
         <li>
          <a href="#">Person 5</a>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="#">Biography</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>

    </div>

mspriyakk · 10-10-2010, 08:32 PM

Hello,

I am trying to learn jquery. I did an example below to show and hide content in a group of div. the code works but i want to know if this is best practice to write what i did. Is there better way to do it?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Jquery selector examples</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
.active {
display: block;
}
.inactive {
display: none;
}
#allwrapper {
width: 400px;
height:250px;
background: #44ffaa;
}

</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
 $('button').click(function(){

   var contentDiv  =   $('div#allwrapper div');
   if(contentDiv !== undefined 
     && contentDiv.length != 0  
     && contentDiv.hasClass('active'))
   {
   var currentText =   $('div#allwrapper div.active');

   currentText.addClass('inactive').removeClass('active');

   //if(currentText.index() == (contentDiv.last().index()))
   if(currentText.is(":last-child"))
        contentDiv.first().addClass('active').removeClass('inactive');
   else     
	currentText.next().addClass('active').removeClass('inactive');
   }
 }


);
});
</script>
</head>

<body>
  <div id="allwrapper">

  <div id="content1" class="active">
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  </div>
  <div id="content2" class="inactive">
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  <div id="content3" class="inactive">
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  <div id="content4" class="inactive">
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  <button>Next</button>
</body>

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