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martinkas on 02/06/08


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Show/Hide Element

Published in: JavaScript 

Will toggle an element's style.visibility, or set it to visible/hidden as selected


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  1. // show or hide a selected element
  2. // if no state is given, the visibility is toggled
  3. // otherwise visibility is set to hidden or visible as selected
  4. function showHide(e, state) {
  5.     el = document.getElementById(e);
  6.     if (state == "hidden") {
  7.     	el.style.visibility = "hidden";
  8.     } else if (state == "visible") {
  9.     	el.style.visibility = "visible";
  10.     } else {
  11.     	el.style.visibility = el.style.visibility  == "visible" ? "hidden" : "visible";
  12.     } 
  13. }

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