Separation from Markup
- Use Javascript to add the "onclick" listener
Let's see how we can do this with jQuery. Items to note:
- Separation. The "click" handler is bound via JavaScript and not the onclick attribute.
- Fancier. jQuery provides many "effects" and "animations" (basic ones here are
fadeOutandfadeIn) - Default Behavior Stopped. The default behavior for event propagation can be stopped.
- Unobtrusive. JS is used to hide additional form elements.
Example
9.2 - JS Separation from Markup - Example 9.2
<div id="cscie12-course2" style="font-family: calibri,verdana,tahoma,helvetica,sans-serif; float: left; width: 50%; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; border: medium solid black; background-color: #ffb;">
<h3>CSCI E-12: Fundamentals of Website Development </h3>
<p>Harvard Extension School
<br/>
David Heitmeyer
<br/>
CSCI E-12
</p>
<p id="cscie12-description2">This course provides a comprehensive overview of website development. Students explore the prevailing vocabulary, tools, and standards used in the field and learn how the various facets including HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, multimedia, scripting languages, HTTP, clients, servers, and databases function together in today's web environment. The course provides a solid web development foundation, focusing on content and client-side (browser) components (HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, multimedia), with an overview of the server-side technologies. In addition, software and services that are easily incorporated into a website (for example, maps, checkout, blogs, content management) are surveyed and discussed. Students produce an interactive website on the topic of their choice for the final project and leave the course prepared for more advanced and focused web development studies.
</p>
</div>
<div style="width: 20%; float: left; margin-left: 2em;">
<p>
<strong>Hide/Show/Toggle Description </strong>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#" id="hide">Hide </a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#" id="show">Show </a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#" id="toggle">Toggle </a>
</li> </ul>
</div>
In
script element within head element (<script>):
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#hide').click(
function(event){
$('#cscie12-description2').fadeOut('slow');
event.preventDefault();
}
);
$('#show').click(
function(event){
$('#cscie12-description2').fadeIn('slow');
event.preventDefault();
}
);
$('#toggle').click(
function(event) {
console.log('toggle!');
$('#cscie12-description2').toggle('slow');
event.preventDefault();
}
);
});