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Problem with jquery selectors.

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  21 days ago

  by wesley.bunton

  Wesley Bunton

  Philadelphia, United States

  Joined 21 days ago

  I am trying to use this jquery slide function that i found online. It's a very basic slide plugin i suppose, which selects a div using the div's id tag. I wanted to make my menu hide/reveal multiple divs and therefore I modified this function that I keep in my .js file to make things work theoretically. But for some reason I cannot get this to work and I think that it might be that my selectors are implemented wrong in my js file. Here is an example of what I've got which seems to work except for when I try my modified code:

  $(document).ready(function() {

      $(".fadeNext_home").click(function(){  
  
              $("#home").fadeSliderToggle()
  
               return false;
  
      })
  

  });

  This is the code that works in my js file:

      caller = this
  

  if($(caller).css("display") == "none"){

  $(caller).animate({

  opacity: 1,

  height: 'toggle'

  }, settings.speed, settings.easing);

      }else{
  
              $(caller).animate({
  

  opacity: 0,

  height: 'toggle'

  }, settings.speed, settings.easing);

      }
  

  };

  And this is a modified version with my own selector that does not work. And I think it's because of the way that I'm trying to interact with an id tag that was not passed to the js file:

      if($(caller).css("display") == "none"){
  
  
  
              if($("#home").css("display") != "none"){
  
                      $("#home").animate({
  
                              opacity: 0,
  
                              height: 'toggle'
  
                      }, settings.speed, settings.easing);
  
              }
  

  I'm new to jquery (obviously) and would appriciate any help. Thanks so much!

  thanks, wes

  Post was edited on 03/11/2009 03:27:54 Report abuse