[thelist] Q on dHTML sibling/child

[jsWalter]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Howden [mailto:jeff at jeffhowden.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:48 AM
> To: jsWalter at torres.ws; thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Q on dHTML sibling/child
>
>
> walter,
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> > From: jsWalter
> >
> > I have this block...
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> first off, drop the dots in the html samples.  how annoying to
> have to strip those to test the code.

Yes they are, but many lists I'm on like it so mail readers do not try to
"render" them.

Sorry.


>
> the <span> tags are superfluous.  you could just as easily put the id
> attribute and onclick event handler on the <a> tag.  for that
> matter, since
> the <a> tag doesn't actually *do* anything, you could put all that info on
> the containing <li> tag.  then, it's a simple matter of toggling
> the display of the first childNode/childElement.
>
> fwiw, i usually avoid dom-walking if at all possible.  for similar
> functionality, but executed in a different manner, check this out:
>
> http://evolt.jeffhowden.com/jeff/code/toggle_display.cfm

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Walter