Setting the display to 'block' might overcome the CSS-limitation, but it can also cause some unexpected results when hiding <span>'s and other elements which default display is 'inline' instead of 'block'.
On Nov 7, 12:57 pm, RobG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 12:52 am, ekallevig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm a little confused about prototype's hide/show methods. In the api, > > it says that "Element.show cannot display elements hidden via CSS > > stylesheets. Note that this is not a Prototype limitation but a > > consequence of how the CSS display property works." > > > I know that if you set display to an empty string '' instead of block, > > you can achieve the hide/show effect via stylesheet. I also know that > > jQuery's hide/show methods seem to be able to handle elements hidden > > via stylesheet with no problem (just look at the basic example on > > their homepagehttp://jquery.com/). Is there a way to achieve this in > > prototype? And why are they saying that it's a CSS limitation? What > > am I missing? > > When you set an element's style.display property to an empty string > (which is what Prototype.js does), you are letting it adopt a display > property either by inheritance from an element higher in the DOM tree > or by CSS, which may mean that the element is still not visible. > > jQuery takes a different approach and may set the display property to > block instead of empty string, however will may still not be visible > if a parent element is not. > > -- > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
