[thelist] javascript for expand/collapse list (aka tree view)

[Morgan Kelsey]

sarah,

> I am looking for some JavaScript for an expandable/collapsible "tree view"
> list (i.e. an unordered list in HTML). It only needs to work in Internet
> Explorer 6 and Netscape 6+/Mozilla, as it is for a limited number of
people
> who all have similar computers. I have a general idea of how this would be
> done with JavaScript using the onclick of each <li> and using childNodes
> and parentNodes to do the hiding/showing of the list; I just don't want to
> spend a whole lot of time trying to "re-invent the wheel". Basically, I
> just want to make my client happy by adding this functionality to their
> site, so I'm looking for a quick and dirty solution - but with nice clean
> code :) So if anyone knows of an existing script which does something like
> this, could you please point me to it?

i found this one recently, couldn't be much simpler to implement (you just
have to apply a class to the outermost <ul> tag)

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/aqlists/

the downside is clicking the img doesn't open the tree like in others.



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