Question

I have a page with a bunch of fake dropdown menus that are coded like this (I can’t really change the HTML):

<div class="select">
    <div class="wrapper calcdropdown">
        <a href="#" class="dd-openercalc">Select a calculator</a>
        <a href="#" class="dd-opener pulldown-arrow">&nbsp;</a>
    </div>
    <ul class="selectbox">
        <li>Dropdown item 1</li>
        <li>Dropdown item 2</li>
        <li>Dropdown item 3</li>
    <ul>
</div>

When I click on either of the links inside the calcdropdown DIVs I need to toggle the corresponding selectbox UL. When I use toggle() the selectbox UL appears when I first click the links but doesn’t disappear when I click the links again.

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready(function() {
    // hide all the dropdowns by default
    $j(".selectbox").hide();

    $j('.calcdropdown a').live('click',function(e) {
        // hide the dropdowns in case another one's open
        $j(".selectbox").hide();
        var self = $j(this);
        // show the selectbox for this link
        var thisSelectbox = $j(this).parents('.select').children('.selectbox').toggle();
        e.preventDefault();
    });
});

This doesn’t work, either:

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready(function() {
    $j(".selectbox").hide();

    $j('.calcdropdown a').live('click',function(e) {
        $j(".selectbox").hide();
        var self = $j(this);
        var thisSelectbox = $j(this).parents('.select').children('.selectbox');
        if(thisSelectbox.is(':hidden')) {
            thisSelectbox.show();
        } else {
            thisSelectbox.hide();
        }
    });
});

How can I hide the selectboxes after I show them?

Answer 1

Remove $j(".selectbox").hide(); from the click-function.

Otherwise you always do this steps inside the click-function:

1. hide the element
2. toggle the element(makes it visible all the time, because you hide it before)

Edit:(I didn’t realize that you use more than one of those elements)

To hide all .selectbox except the one related to the click use not():

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(document).ready(function() {
    // hide all the dropdowns by default
    $j(".selectbox").hide();

    $j('.calcdropdown a').live('click',function(e) {

        var target=$j(this).parents('.select').children('.selectbox');
            $j('.selectbox').not(target.toggle()).hide();
            e.preventDefault();
    });
});

http://jsfiddle.net/doktormolle/qG8ps/