Show Hide Table Rows using Javascript classes

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I have a table that kind of expands and collapses  but it s getting too messy to use it and IE and Firefox are not working properly with it   So  here s the JavaScript code     function toggle it itemID             Toggle visibility between none and           if   document getElementById itemID  style display     none                   document getElementById itemID  style display                   event preventDefault           else                document getElementById itemID  style display    none                event preventDefault                      And a Sample HTML    lt table gt       lt tr gt           lt td gt Product lt  td gt           lt td gt Price lt  td gt           lt td gt Destination lt  td gt           lt td gt Updated on lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt           lt td gt Oranges lt  td gt           lt td gt 100 lt  td gt           lt td gt  lt a href     id  toggle  onClick  toggle it  tr1   toggle it  tr2    gt   On Store lt  a gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr id  tr1  style  display none  gt           lt td gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 120 lt  td gt           lt td gt City 1 lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr id  tr2  style  display none  gt           lt td gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 140 lt  td gt           lt td gt City 2 lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt           lt td gt Apples lt  td gt           lt td gt 100 lt  td gt           lt td gt  lt a href     id  toggle  onClick  toggle it  tr3   toggle it  tr4    gt   On Store lt  a gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr id  tr3  style  display none  gt           lt td gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 120 lt  td gt           lt td gt City 1 lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr id  tr4  style  display none  gt           lt td gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 140 lt  td gt           lt td gt City 2 lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt   lt  table gt    The problem is that I use one ID for each and every  and that s very annoying because I want to have a lot of hidden rows for each parent and a lot of parents  so it would be too many IDs to handle  And IE and FireFox are only showing the first Hidden Row and not the others  I suspect this happens because I ve made it work by triggering all IDs together  I think it would be better if I use Classes instead of IDs to indetify the hidden rows   I m really new to all of this so please try and explaining it in any kind of simply way  Also I ve tried jQuery but wasn t able to get it

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event preventDefault     Doesn t work in all browsers  Instead you could return false in OnClick event   onClick  toggle it  tr1   toggle it  tr2    return false   gt    Not sure if this is the best way  but I tested in IE  FF and Chrome and its working fine

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Below is my Script which show hide table row with id  agencyrow        lt script type  text javascript  gt                           function showhiderow                                 if  document getElementById   lt   RadioButton1 ClientID   gt    checked    true                                     document getElementById  agencyrow   style display                                     else                                    document getElementById  agencyrow   style display    none                                                                  lt  script gt     Just call function showhiderow  upon radiobutton onClick event

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It s difficult to figure out what you re trying to do with this sample but you re actually on the right track thinking about using classes  I ve created a JSFiddle to help demonstrate a slightly better way  I hope  of doing this   Here s the fiddle  link   What you do is  instead of working with IDs  you work with classes  In your code sample  there are Oranges and Apples  I treat them as product categories  as I don t really know what your purpose is   with their own ids  So  I mark the product  lt tr gt s with class  cat1  or class  cat2    I also mark the links with a simple  toggler class  It s not good practice to have onclick attributes on elements themselves  You should  bind  the events on page load using JavaScript  I do this using jQuery       toggler   click function e          you handle the event here       With this format  you are binding an event handler to the click event of links with class toggler  In my code  I add a data-prod-cat attribute to the toggler links to specify which product rows they should control   The reason for my using a data-  attribute is explained here  You can Google  html5 data attributes  for more information    In the event handler  I do this       cat    this  attr  data-prod-cat    toggle      With this code  I m actually trying to create a selector like     cat1   so I can select rows for a specific product category  and change their visibility  I use   this  attr  data-prod-cat   this to access the data-prod-cat attribute of the link the user clicks  I use the jQuery toggle function  so that I don t have to write logic like if visible  then hide element  else make it visible like you do in your JS code  jQuery deals with that  The toggle function does what it says and toggles the visibility of the specified element s    I hope this was explanatory enough

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Well one way to do it would be to just put a class on the  parent  rows and remove all the ids and inline onclick attributes    lt table id  products  gt       lt thead gt       lt tr gt           lt th gt Product lt  th gt           lt th gt Price lt  th gt           lt th gt Destination lt  th gt           lt th gt Updated on lt  th gt       lt  tr gt       lt  thead gt       lt tbody gt       lt tr class  parent  gt           lt td gt Oranges lt  td gt           lt td gt 100 lt  td gt           lt td gt  lt a href     gt   On Store lt  a gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt           lt td gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 120 lt  td gt           lt td gt City 1 lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt       lt tr gt           lt td gt  lt  td gt           lt td gt 140 lt  td gt           lt td gt City 2 lt  td gt           lt td gt 22 10 lt  td gt       lt  tr gt         etc       lt  tbody gt   lt  table gt    And then have some CSS that hides all non-parents   tbody tr       display   none              default is hidden   tr parent       display   table-row         parents are shown   tr open       display   table-row         class to be given to  open  child rows     That greatly simplifies your html  Note that I ve added  lt thead gt  and  lt tbody gt  to your markup to make it easy to hide data rows and ignore heading rows   With jQuery you can then simply do this      when an anchor in the table is clicked     products   on  click   a  function e           prevent default behaviour     e preventDefault           find all the following TR elements up to the next  parent         and toggle their  open  class       this  closest  tr   nextUntil   parent   toggleClass  open          Demo  http   jsfiddle net CBLWS 1   Or  to implement something like that in plain JavaScript  perhaps something like the following   document getElementById  products   addEventListener  click   function e           if clicked item is an anchor     if  e target tagName      A             e preventDefault               get reference to anchor s parent TR         var row   e target parentNode parentNode             loop through all of the following TRs until the next parent is found         while   row   nextTr row    amp  amp     bparent b  test row className               toggle it row              function nextTr row           find next sibling that is an element  skip text nodes  etc       while   row   row nextSibling   amp  amp  row nodeType    1       return row     function toggle it item         if    bopen b  test item className            if item already has the class          item className   item className replace   bopen b           remove it      else                                          otherwise          item className      open                  add it     Demo  http   jsfiddle net CBLWS   Either way  put the JavaScript in a  lt script gt  element that is at the end of the body  so that it runs after the table has been parsed

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AngularJS directives ng-show  ng-hide allows to display and hide a row       lt tr ng-show  rw isExpanded  gt      lt  tr gt    A row will be visible when rw isExpanded    true and hidden when  rw isExpanded    false  ng-hide performs the same task but requires inverse condition

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JQuery 10 1 2 has a nice show and hide functions that encapsulate the behavior you are talking about  This would save you having to write a new function or keep track of css classes      tr1   show        tr1   hide      w3cSchool link to JQuery show and hide

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