Question

<div id="abclink">
    + click here to view
</div>
<div id="abctable" style="display: none;">
    some text here, allot of text
</div>

So using jquery I try and do:

$("#abclink").bind("click", function() {

     $("#abctable").show();
});

This doesn’t work, and I don’t know why?

Answer 1

You might be missing the document.ready function. Also, it might be best to use toggle instead of show:

$(document).ready(function(){
 $("#abclink").bind("click", function() {
  $("#abctable").toggle();
 });
})