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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Show/Hide divs and swap images with SkinID using Javascript

The following example shows 2 ways of using javascript to show/hide divs (or any elements) on the click event of an image and also to swap the image that uses a skin id. Since skins are applied on the server side, you cannot change SkinID on client side using javascript. Though this is a crude way of doing it, it worked for developing my website since this functionality is used on only one page. I am sure there are more better and easier ways to do it, but these examples can be used in a simple website that uses asp.net or HTML.

Example 1: To Show only one div at a time.

ASP.Net Code
<div id="divContent">

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<div id="div1" style="display:none">
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</div>

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<div id="div8" style="display:none">
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</div>
</div>

JavaScript Code:

function toggle(divID)
{
var divToShow = document.getElementById(divID);
var divUL = document.getElementById('dvfaq');
var divs = divUL.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
for(var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++)
{
divs[i].style.display = 'none';
if(divToShow.style.display == 'none')
{
divToShow.style.display = 'block';
}
}
return false;
}

Example 2: To Show multiple divs at a time and click to open and close.

ASP.Net Code

<a id="lnk0" href="#" onclick="return toggle('div0', 'lnk0')">
Q: What is Test? <asp:Image ID="imgToggle" SkinID="ArrowClose"
style="display: inline" runat="server" /><asp:Image ID="Image27"
SkinID="ArrowOpen" style="display: none" runat="server" /></a>
<br />

<div id="div0" style="display:none">
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</div>

<a id="lnk1" href="#" onclick="return toggle('div1', 'lnk1')">
Q: What is Sample? <asp:Image ID="Image1" SkinID="ArrowClose"
style="display: inline" runat="server" /><asp:Image ID="Image28"
SkinID="ArrowOpen" style="display: none" runat="server" /></a>
<br />

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</div>

JavaScript Code:

function toggle(divID, imgID)
{
var divToShow = document.getElementById(divID);
if(divToShow.style.display == 'none')
{
divToShow.style.display = 'block';
}
else if(divToShow.style.display == 'block')
{
divToShow.style.display = 'none';
}

var imgToShow = document.getElementById(imgID).getElementsByTagName('img')[0];
var imgToHide = document.getElementById(imgID).getElementsByTagName('img')[1];

if(imgToShow.style.display == 'none')
{
imgToShow.style.display = 'inline';
imgToHide.style.display = 'none';
}
else if(imgToShow.style.display == 'inline')
{
imgToShow.style.display = 'none';
imgToHide.style.display = 'inline';
}
return false;
}

Skin Code:

<asp:Image runat="server" SkinID="ArrowClose" ImageUrl="images/arrowClose.gif"
width="9" height="9" />

<asp:Image runat="server" SkinID="ArrowOpen" ImageUrl="images/arrowOpen.gif"
width="9" height="9" />

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

good job