Hey Rick! Welcome to the list man. Glad to see another CF'er over her. I'll take a look at the code and see if I can help.
Rey Rick Faircloth wrote: > Hi, all… > > I finally started experimenting with jQuery and I must > > say, it does show great promise. > > I started working with the jQuery Starterkit at > > _http://jquery.bassistance.de/__jquery-getting-started.html_ > <http://jquery.bassistance.de/jquery-getting-started.html> > > The straight-forward implementation of the syntax makes > > this easy to work with, especially after studying the source of the > > sample page, starterkit.html, included in the download for the kit. > > I tried some of the sample code on one of my own sites, just experimenting, > > and was able to get some response…all seemed well. > > > However, since that first experiment, I can’t seem to get any response > > to the jQuery script. > > I made it really simple to try to troubleshoot the problem: > > I created a single sample page, put the custom.js in the same directly > so I would > > know the path to the code is correct. > > I coded the target page in accordance with the straterkit.html page. > > The page just shows the text, but no response to the javascript. > > In detail, code included, here’s what I did: > > Once create directory for sample page called “Website_Trials”… > > Next, put the custom js in the directory so we have > “T:\Website_Trials\custom.js” > > One the html page I have > > <script type=”text/javascript” src=”custom.js”></script> > > (The html page and custom.js are in the same directory above.) > > The code of the html page is as follows: > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > <html> > > <head> > > <title>Untitled</title> > > > > <script type="text/javascript" src="custom.js"></script> > > <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> > > > > </head> > > <body> > > <dl id="ann"> > > <dt>Question that needs an answer...</dt><br> > > <dd>Here is the answer to the question!</dd> > > </dl> > > </body> > > </html> > > My custom.js contains this code: > > $(document).ready(function() { > > $('#ann').find('dd').hide().end().find('dt').click(function() { > > var answer = $(this).next(); > > if (answer.is(':visible')) { > > answer.slideUp(); > > } else { > > answer.slideDown(); > > } > > }); > > }); > > Anybody have any clues about what I’m missing…I’m sure it’s something > simple… > > Help! This has been driving me crazy all weekend and I can’t get past > this mentally > > to get any work done! > > Thanks, > > Rick > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
