Question

I’ve written a cookie-based toggle show/hide menu. It remembers what was open/closed using the jQuery cookie plugin. It exactly works fine; the only problem is I have to add different script for each menu. So each menu has its own script.

This is the code so far:

jQuery

$(document).ready(function() {
var panel = $("#f1_fold");
var button = $("#f1_fold_i");
var initialState = "expanded";
var activeClass = "hidden";
var visibleText = "<img src='html/sys-img/min.gif' alt='-' />";
var hiddenText = "<img src='html/sys-img/plus.gif' alt='+' />";


if($.cookie("panelState1") == undefined) {
    $.cookie("panelState1", initialState);
}
var state = $.cookie("panelState1");
if(state == "collapsed") {
    panel.hide();
    button.html(hiddenText);
    button.addClass(activeClass);
}

button.click(function(){
    if($.cookie("panelState1") == "expanded") {
        $.cookie("panelState1", "collapsed");
        button.html(hiddenText);
        button.addClass(activeClass);
    } else {
        $.cookie("panelState1", "expanded");
        button.html(visibleText);
        button.removeClass(activeClass);
    }
    panel.slideToggle("1000");
    return false;
});
});

And here is the HTML snippet

<div class="tableborder"> 
      <div class='maintitle'> 
      <div style='float: right; width: auto !important; padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 3px;'><a id='f1_fold_i' id='1' href='#' style='vertical-align:middle; border:0px solid #000; cursor:pointer;' /><img src='html/sys-img/min.gif' alt='-' /></a></div> 
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</div> 
      <span id='f1_fold' style='display:;'> 
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">  
        <tr>
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        </tr> 
<tr> 
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        </tr> </table></span><table width="100%"><tr> 
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        </tr> 
      </table> 

    </div> 

Notice that I have to add different script for each menu because it depends on the f1_fold and f1_fold_i css ID. For the other menu, it would be f2_fold and f2_fold_i. For the other, it’d be f3_fold and f3_fold_i. Etc.

Also, to make the cookie remembers which menu is collapsed and which menu is opened, it also depends on the panelState1 (for 1st menu), panelState2 (for the 2nd), panelState3, etc

Is there any way to make this shorter and more flexible? So I don’t have to add different variable

Answer 1

After a year, though not achieving exactly what I meant, I found that using the collapsible jQuery plugin is more practical.