I'm trying to build something like wordpress options for toggling fields visibility when creating and article. What I've build is relying on the $.click
function that is toggling the parent with the corresponding field name and I was wondering what would be the best way of doing this with if the check box is checked because my code will mess up if you check a box and reload the page because its a click and not if the box is actually checked. Thanks in advance!
http://jsfiddle.net/zgrRd/1/
HTML
<input type="checkbox" name="title">
<span class="caption">Title</span>
<div class="hidden">
<h2>Title</h2>
<input type="text" name="title">
<span class="caption">Lorem</span>
</div>
jQuery
$('input[type="checkbox"]').click(function(){
var item = $(this).attr('name');
$('input[name="'+item+'"][type="text"]').parent().toggle();
});
Assuming that you are externally controlling the checked state of your checkboxes...
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/zgrRd/5/
In other words, whatever state the checkboxes are in will be evaluated when the page loads, so if a box is not checked, the corresponding element will start out hidden. So if you are setting a value server-side which checks the box, this client-side JavaScript should evaluate it properly.
JavaScript
function evaluate(){
var item = $(this);
var relatedItem = $("#" + item.attr("data-related-item")).parent();
if(item.is(":checked")){
relatedItem.fadeIn();
}else{
relatedItem.fadeOut();
}
}
$('input[type="checkbox"]').click(evaluate).each(evaluate);
HTML
<input type="checkbox" data-related-item="title1">
<span class="caption">Title</span>
<div class="hidden">
<h2>Title</h2>
<input type="text" id="title1">
<span class="caption">Lorem</span>
</div>
<hr>
<input type="checkbox" data-related-item="title2" checked>
<span class="caption">Title</span>
<div class="hidden">
<h2>Title</h2>
<input type="text" id="title2">
<span class="caption">Lorem</span>
</div>
Note my use of data-*
attributes. This avoids using the name
attribute of one field to indicate a relationship to another field. You can legally name these attributes whatever you want, as long as they are prefixed with data-
.
I think this, Jquery UI Save State Using Cookie, is the missing part you are after to control state between reloads?
HTML
<input type="checkbox" id="cbxShowHide"/><label for="cbxShowHide">Show/Hide</label>
<div id="block">Some text here</div>
css
#block{display:none;background:#eef;padding:10px;text-align:center;}
javascript / jquery
$('#cbxShowHide').click(function(){
this.checked?$('#block').show(1000):$('#block').hide(1000); //time for show
});