I am a total beginner, so excuse my inability to see an obvious solution (if there is one). That said, I have scoured the interweb for an answer to this and have only run into the same question. What I’ve got working so far: using what I found at http://www.tobypitman.com/multiple-collapsable-panels-with-cookies/, I’ve managed to get multiple containers to toggle between display:block and display:none, and I’m setting cookies with Klaus Hartl’s cookie.js.
Everything works terrifically! Except that I want the toggle containers’ initial state to be closed. I’d really like to accomplish this without having any display:none directly in the CSS, so the content remains accessible with JS off. I’m not a programmer, and my brute force method of changing things here and there until something happens is not quite cutting it. I’ve included the HTML, CSS and jQuery all below – the only thing that will be missing from my example is the CSS image sprite for the <h6> that serves as the trigger.
Toggle with cookie
<style>
.toggle-wrapper {
overflow:hidden;
display:block;
}
.toggle-wrapper .toggle-container {
position:relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
.toggle-wrapper h6.trigger {
background: transparent url(images/trigger-sprite.png) no-repeat left top;/*sprite is 15x30px - plus sign on top, minus on bottom*/
height: 15px;/*half of sprite's height*/
cursor:pointer;
padding:0 0 0 16px;
margin:0;
}
.toggle-wrapper h6.active {
background-position: left bottom;/*this is the open state, showing the minus sign part of sprite*/
padding:0 0 0 16px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
/**
* Get the value of a cookie with the given key.
*
* @example $.cookie('the_cookie');
* @desc Get the value of a cookie.
*
* @param String key The key of the cookie.
* @return The value of the cookie.
* @type String
*
* @name $.cookie
* @cat Plugins/Cookie
* @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
*/
jQuery.cookie = function (key, value, options) {
// key and value given, set cookie...
if (arguments.length > 1 && (value === null || typeof value !== "object")) {
options = jQuery.extend({}, options);
if (value === null) {
options.expires = -1;
}
if (typeof options.expires === 'number') {
var days = options.expires, t = options.expires = new Date();
t.setDate(t.getDate() + days);
}
return (document.cookie = [
encodeURIComponent(key), '=',
options.raw ? String(value) : encodeURIComponent(String(value)),
options.expires ? '; expires=' + options.expires.toUTCString() : '', // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
options.path ? '; path=' + options.path : '',
options.domain ? '; domain=' + options.domain : '',
options.secure ? '; secure' : ''
].join(''));
}
// key and possibly options given, get cookie...
options = value || {};
var result, decode = options.raw ? function (s) { return s; } : decodeURIComponent;
return (result = new RegExp('(?:^|; )' + encodeURIComponent(key) + '=([^;]*)').exec(document.cookie)) ? decode(result[1]) : null;
};
// http://www.tobypitman.com/multiple-collapsable-panels-with-cookies/
$(document).ready(function(){
$("div.toggle-wrapper h6").addClass("active");
var l = $('div.toggle-wrapper h6').length;
var panel = $("div.toggle-wrapper div.toggle-container");
for (c=0;c<=l;c++){
var cvalue = $.cookie('panel' + c);
if ( cvalue == 'closed' + c ) {
$(panel).eq(c).css({display:"none"});
$(panel).eq(c).prev().removeClass('active').addClass('inactive');
};
};
$("div.toggle-wrapper h6.active").toggle(
function () {
var num = $("div.toggle-wrapper h6").index(this);
var cookieName = 'panel' + num;
var cookieValue = 'closed' + num;
$(this).next("div.toggle-container").slideUp(500);
$(this).removeClass('active');
$.cookie(cookieName, cookieValue, { path: '/', expires: 10 });
},
function () {
var num = $("div.toggle-wrapper h6").index(this);
var cookieName = 'panel' + num;
$(this).next("div.toggle-container").slideDown(500);
$(this).addClass("active");
$.cookie(cookieName, null, { path: '/', expires: 10 });
}
);
$("div.toggle-wrapper h6.inactive").toggle(
function () {
var num = $("div.toggle-wrapper h6").index(this);
var cookieName = 'panel' + num;
$(this).next("div.toggle-container").slideDown(500);
$(this).addClass("active");
$(this).removeClass('inactive');
$.cookie(cookieName, null, { path: '/', expires: 10 });
},
function () {
var num = $("div.toggle-wrapper h6").index(this);
var cookieName = 'panel' + num;
var cookieValue = 'closed' + num;
$(this).next("div.toggle-container").slideUp(500);
$(this).removeClass('active');
$.cookie(cookieName, cookieValue, { path: '/', expires: 10 });
}
);
});
</script>
<div class="toggle-wrapper">
<h6 class="trigger">Trigger 1</h6>
<div class="toggle-container">
<p>Stuff goes inside of here</p>
<p>More stuff</p>
<p>More even</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="toggle-wrapper">
<h6 class="trigger">Trigger 2</h6>
<div class="toggle-container">
<p>Stuff goes inside of here</p>
<p>More stuff</p>
<p>More even</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="toggle-wrapper">
<h6 class="trigger">Trigger 3</h6>
<div class="toggle-container">
<p>Stuff goes inside of here</p>
<p>More stuff</p>
<p>More even</p>
</div>
</div>
To create a closed default state, just make the toggle-container depend on another cookie called let’s say ‘open’. If there is no cookie ‘open + c’ the container is hidden as well.
Now don’t make the toggle function remove the panel cookie on slideDown, but set the panel cookie with value ‘open + num’.
After setting the open cookie the script works like it did before. Here is the whole thing with different class names but that should not be a problem.