Question

I need some help passing arguments to a jquery function. I have an html header, with

onclick="slide(#aboutit);"

and I created, in the header, a function

<script type="text/javascript">
    function slide(element){
        var slid = element;
        slid.slideToggle("slow");
    }
</script>

for some reason which I don’t understand, this isn’t working. I can get it do work if instead of that I use

function slide(){
    $('#aboutit').slideToggle("slow");
}

but I don’t want to have to create a new function for sliding for each part of the website.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your code slide(#aboutit); is invalid. What you can do instead is slide($('#aboutit')).