Question

I’m currently working on a location page on a website and am having trouble with a show/hide jquery effect. The jQuery below activates on-click and applies toggles the class of a div to show/hide it… pretty straightforward. However, when I add more divs with the same class and click on the activator link, it runs the functions on all of the divs. I know this is a simple fix, but I can’t figure out the right syntax. Could anyone take a quick look at this code and see about how I could fix it. I only included one of the html divs below. It’s when I have more than one that causes the problem. See example here.

Thanks,
Taylor

jQuery

$(function(){
    $(".sliding").hide();
    $(".show-hide").show();
    $(".hide-click").show();

    $('.show-hide').click(function(){   
        $(".sliding").slideToggle("slow");
        $(".hide-click").slideToggle("slow");
    });
});

HTML

<!-- Bowie, MD -->
<div class="location" style="margin-top: 0;">

<!-- City Name -->
<h3><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="show-hide">Bowie</a></h3>

    <h2>Address</h2>
    <p>16901 Melford Blvd, Suite 11<br/>
    Bowie, MD 20715</p>

    <h2>Contact</h2>
    <p><span><strong>Phone:</strong> 301.805.5395</span><br />
    <span><strong>Fax:</strong> 301.805.5396</span></p>

    <span class="hide-click"><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="show-hide">View additional info</a></span>

    <!-- Hidden Content -->
    <div class="sliding">

        <h2>Map</h2>

        <div class="map">   
            <iframe width="211" height="140" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=16901+Melford+Blvd,+Suite+11+Bowie,+MD+20715&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=61.023673,112.236328&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=16901+Melford+Blvd,+Bowie,+Maryland+20715&amp;ll=38.959742,-76.714354&amp;spn=0.009344,0.018196&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed"></iframe>
        </div>

        <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=16901+Melford+Blvd,+Suite+11+Bowie,+MD+20715&daddr=&hl=en&geocode=&mra=prev&sll=38.959741,-76.714349&sspn=0.00755,0.013422&g=16901+Melford+Blvd,+Suite+11+Bowie,+MD+20715&ie=UTF8&z=17" target="_blank" class="directions">Get Directions</a>

        <h2>Doctors</h2>
        <p><a href="/#phillips.php">William B. Phillips, II M.D.</a>, <a href="/#weichel.php">Eric D. Weichel, M.D.</a></p>
        <a href="javascript:void(0);" class="show-hide">Hide additional info</a>

    </div>
    <!-- end Hidden Content -->

</div>
<!-- end Location -->

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you’re wanting just the .sliding content that’s associated with its .show-hide link to toggle. You can set the jQuery context to find the correct .sliding element. This way you don’t assume that the element is at a certain position and you’re not tied to unique css ids allowing more flexibility.

$(function(){
    $(".sliding").hide();
    $(".show-hide").show();
    $(".hide-click").show();

    $('.show-hide').click(function(){   
        //find the surrounding div
        var location = $(this).parent().parent();

        //find the correct elements within the location block
        $(".sliding",location).slideToggle("slow");
        $(".hide-click",location).slideToggle("slow");
    });
});