Question

I have divs created within a while loop displaying a MySQL query. I’d like to hide and show them with .slideToggle. I can’t use one class as that would trigger every specific div on the page to slide down.

I thought this would repeat within the while loop and find the closest toggleSectionDyn div id. Obviously not.

<div class="actions"><a href="#" id="toggleButtonDyn">Add</a></div>
<div id="toggleSectionDyn">Some content</div>
<script>
  $("#toggleButtonDyn").click(function(){
    $(this).closest("#toggleSectionDyn").slideToggle("slow");
    return false;
  });
</script>

Answer 1

EDIT: live is deprecated. consider using .on()

you want to use .live()

 $("#toggleButtonDyn").live('click', (function(){
    $(this).closest("#toggleSectionDyn").slideToggle("slow");
    return false;
  });

from the .live() api

The .live() method is able to affect elements that have not yet been added to the DOM through the use of event delegation: a handler bound to an ancestor element is responsible for events that are triggered on its descendants. The handler passed to .live() is never bound to an element; instead, .live() binds a special handler to the root of the DOM tree.

Now, upon re-reading, I wonder exactly what your asking. You must also make sure each <div> must have a unique ID. You may consider you .next('div') instead of .closest()

Per the discussion in comments, I would use .next(‘div’) look at the modified jsfiddle from yesterdays question http://jsfiddle.net/ycpgD/

also, I would strongly recommend using unique ID’s. if they cannot be unique make them classes.