Show/hide text by clicking hyperlink

oaskedal

Hi! 😃

Anyone that knows how to do this with both javascript (onclick event) and a php variable (which should contain the content)

I need it for a contactlist. I've made each and everyone of the names a hyperlink. Whenever someone click one of the names, an onclick event should make a variable display in a specific table cell beside...
When the next name is clicked, the first information should dissapear and the new contactinformation should appear in the same table cell..

Something like the show/hide layers function in javascript....

Maybe someone could give me a start, as I'm no good with the syntax...

devinemke

i assume the data is coming from database? if so then you have a few choices:

do everything server-side: have a name link to page where the expanded data is pulled from the db and displayed
do everything client-side: pull everything (all data) from the db on the initial page request and use js to show/hide the expanded data. this is not very practical if you are dealing with a lot of data and/or if the data is sensitive.
do a hybrid of the above two ideas using AJAX.

option #3 is the most elegant