{"id":6,"date":"2011-01-30T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitekicker.uwsweb.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2011-02-13T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T00:12:02","slug":"expand-collapse-javascript-jquery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/expand-collapse-javascript-jquery\/","title":{"rendered":"Expand \/ Collapse with JavaScript \/ jQuery"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your page content is getting lengthy or you just want to add some interactivity to your site, consider expandable\/collapsible content. We can leverage the JavaScript toolkit, jQuery<\/a> to make this process painless.<\/p>\n

The HTML<\/strong>
\n\t<div class="expandable">
\n\t  <h3>See this content?<\/h3>
\n\t  <p>This is paragraph 1<\/p>
\n\t  <p>This is paragraph 2<\/p>
\n\t  <ul>
\n\t    <li>This is a list<\/li>
\n\t  <\/ul>
\n\t<\/div><\/code><\/p>\n

The JavaScript \/ jQuery
\n\t<\/strong>$('.expandable').children().not('h3').hide();
\n\t$('.expandable').children('h3').prepend('<span>+<\/span>');
\n\t$('.expandable').children('h3').click(function() {
\n\t  $(this).siblings().slideToggle('fast');
\n\t  $(this).parent().toggleClass('expanded');
\n\t  ($(this).children('span').html() == '+') ?
\n\t    $(this).children('span').html('-') :
\n\t    $(this).children('span').html('+');
\n\t});<\/code><\/p>\n

The CSS
\n\t<\/strong>.expandable h3 { cursor: pointer; }
\n\t.expandable h3 span { <\/code>
\n\t  display: block;
\n\t  float: left;
\n\t  width: 10px;
\n\t  margin-left: -10px;
\n\t  color: #a00; <\/code>
\n\t}
\n\t.expanded { \/\/ whatever styles you like (applied when element is "expanded") }
\n\t<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If your page content is getting lengthy or you just want to add some interactivity to your site, consider expandable\/collapsible content. We can leverage the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,8,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}