Question

How to toggle HTML text of an anchor tag using jQuery? I want an anchor that when clicked the text alternates between Show Background & Show Text as well as fading in & out another div. This was my best guess:

$(function() {
    $("#show-background").click(function () {
        $("#content-area").animate({opacity: 'toggle'}, 'slow'); 
    });

    $("#show-background").toggle(function (){
        $(this).text("Show Background")
        .stop();
    }, function(){
        $(this).text("Show Text")
        .stop();
    });
});

Answer 1

Sorry the problem is me! the was out of sync but this was because I have the HTML text the wrong way around. On the first click I want the div to fade out and the text to say “Show Text”.

Will check more thoroughly next time before I ask!

My code is now:

$(function() {
  $("#show-background").toggle(function (){
    $("#content-area").animate({opacity: '0'}, 'slow')
    $("#show-background").text("Show Text")
      .stop();
  }, function(){
    $("#content-area").animate({opacity: '1'}, 'slow')
    $("#show-background").text("Show Background")
      .stop();
  });
});

Thanks again for the help!