Question

I have the following problem.
I have a div (id = "outline") on my page.
Now I would like it to be set visible="false when clicked on a button.
The catch is it is way outside the container-div.

I’ve thought about using a Panel and then the Panel.FindControl
but then what happens with the </div>?

Answer 1

Server Side

You dont mention if you want to do this on the server side or via jquery / javascript (client side).

If on the server side set your div to runat="server" and in the code behind set the visibility to false.

So your HTML becomes <div id="outline" runat="server"> and your button click event has a single line:

outline.Visible=false;

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Client Side

If you want to do this via jquery (which you should) just give the div an id and use a selector:

http://api.jquery.com/hide/

$('.target').hide();

Or via javascript if you aren’t using jquery:

document.getElementById('outline').style.visibility = 'hidden';