I have a really simple external css stylesheet that has the following :
div.hideBox {
display:none;
}
So when the html page loads, the div with that class attribute 'hideBox' will not show on the page, which is what I want. But I the box to show/appear when a user clicks on a button on that same page. I tried to use the onclick event to do this, but the div won't show.
So for example, the code would be :
<script language="javascript">
function showmydiv() {
document.getElementById('mybox').style.display = "";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mybox" class="hideBox">
some output of text
</div>
<input type="button" name="ShowBox" value="Show Box" onclick="showmydiv()">
What's strange is that a setup similar to this works when I use visibility:hidden; position:absolute; and I can use a JavaScript function to show the <div>.
What am I doing wrong here?
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try setting the display to block in your javascript instead of a blank value.
document.getElementById('mybox').style.display = "block";
I can see that you want to write you own short javascript for this, but have you considered to use Frameworks for HTML manipulation instead? jQuery is my prefered tool for such a task, eventhough its an overkill for your current question as it has SO many extra functionalities.
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