Question

I was searching for a pure CSS answer to hiding and showing content but after no luck I have been playing around with a piece of JavaScript code. My question is below the code, as it may help you to see the code first.

      <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
            $('.text_container').addClass("visible");

        $('.text_container').click(function() {
            var $this = $(this);
            if ($this.hasClass("visible")) {
                    $(this).removeClass("visible").addClass("hidden");
            } else {
                    $(this).removeClass("hidden").addClass("visible");
            }
        });
    });
   </script>  


        <div id="services" class="text_container"> 
         <h4>SERVICES</h4>
             <div>
              <p>Loads of text blah blah blah</p>
             </div>
         </div>


         /* HIDE and SHOW content JavaScript function */
  .hidden div {display:none;}
  .visible div {display:block;} 

  .text_container {
      background-color: #39b54a;
     background-image: url("pattern2.png");
     border: 1px solid #777777;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px  inset, 0 0 40px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) inset, 0 16px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4) inset, 0 4px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
    color: #000000;
    padding: 5px;
    text-align: left;
    width: auto;

  }
  .text_container h4 {
     cursor: pointer;
  }
  .text_container div p {
      margin-bottom: 10px;
  }
  .visible > div {
   display: block;
   font-size: 17px;
    height: 100%;
  }

  #rating > div {
    clear: left;
    height: 260px;
  }
  /* end of HIDE and SHOW content javascript function */  

Currently as expected the div with class = text_container area is clickable, so if a place a form in the child DIV when you select the form the content hides. I Would like to make only the H4 element
clickable so clicking on the shown content will not hide the content.

I am useless at JavaScript and I imagine this requires rejigging the js.

Answer 1

You can use:

$('.text_container h4').click(function() {
    if($(this).hasClass("visible")) {
        $(this).removeClass("visible").addClass("hidden");
    } else {
        $(this).removeClass("hidden").addClass("visible");
    }
});

The content in the $(‘ … ‘) is just like a CSS selector, so if you know CSS then it won’t be a problem for you.

With CSS you could style that h4 element with:

.text_container h4 { color: #000000; }

and just the same, you can create a wrapped set with jQuery that selects it with:

$('.text_container h4')