I have a table which lists merchandise in a Guitar Store - each row contains one piece of merchandise. Each row (and each piece of merchandise) is either New, Used or on Consignment. I'd like for a user to be able to click a link in a sidebar UL (clicking on either New, Used, or Cons) and have only the table rows of that corresponding condition remain visible. So if a user clicked "Used" then all New and Cons rows would become hidden.
I have made this work with some simple JavaScript, but it uses getElementByID which won't work for me because I need to identify the TRs with classes. So that's where I get stumped. I'm not sure how to make this work with classes.
Here's the solution I've worked out so far:
<html>
<head>
<script>
function used() {
document.getElementById("new").style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById("cons").style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById("used").style.display = '';
}
function news() {
document.getElementByClass("new").style.display = '';
document.getElementById("cons").style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById("used").style.display = 'none';
}
function cons() {
document.getElementByClass("new").style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById("cons").style.display = '';
document.getElementById("used").style.display = 'none';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span onClick="used();">Used</span><br />
<span onClick="news();">New</span><br />
<span onClick="cons();">Cons</span><br /><br />
<table border="1">
<tr id="used">
<td>Used</td>
</tr>
<tr id="new">
<td>New</td>
</tr>
<tr id="cons">
<td>Cons</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The above code works ok, and if I could get it to work with classes instead it would solve my immediate need. However, ultimately I'd like to scale this up to use for Brands as well - so that a user could click on a brand and see only the posts for that brand. In that situation I might have 20 or 30 brands in the table, so the above would not be ideal. Also this will ultimately live in a Wordpress site, and I would ideally be creating the classes for each brand from meta data in wordpress and similarly creating a dynamic UL containing the brands that toggle the table, as well as having a js solution that can work with a changing set of variables! So I know that what I have above is not the best approach, but it's the only one I know enough to try right now.
Help with the above would be most appreciated - as would advice about how I might do this more effectively as I move towards the more challenging Brands aspect.
EDIT:
Google helped me out, and I have a new direction - this might solve my problem:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<title>Sandbox</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul class="side-nav">
<li><a class="cond" href="#">Show all</a></li>
<li><a class="used" href="#">Used</a></li>
<li><a class="new" href="#">New</a></li>
<li><a class="cons" href="#">Cons</a></li>
</ul>
<table>
<tr class="cond used">
<td>A Used Item</td>
<td>Used.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="cond new">
<td>A New Item</td>
<td>New</td>
</tr>
<tr class="cond cons">
<td>A Cons Item</td>
<td>Cons</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
$(function()
{
$('ul.side-nav a').click(function()
{
$('tr.cond').hide();
$('tr.' + $(this).attr('class')).show();
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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document.getElementsByClassName returns a NodeList, not a single element, I'd recommend either using jQuery, since you'd only have to use something like $('.new').toggle()
or if you want plain JS try :
function toggle_by_class(cls, on) {
var lst = document.getElementsByClassName(cls);
for(var i = 0; i < lst.length; ++i) {
lst[i].style.display = on ? '' : 'none';
}
}
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.
$("new").show();
$("new").hide();
You can change the class of the entire table and use the cascade in the CSS: http://jsbin.com/oyunuy/1/
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