Show text onclick

[viktor boulg]

Sorry if it is something trivial.
I need to program displaying the text when the link is clicked. For example I need to have a bar:
Algorithm | Contact us | .... | ....
When I click Algorithm it should show the text with algorithm description right below the bar, for Contact us it should show e-mail address, etc. It should not be linkes to other html files.
It should be purely HTML+JavaScrip, nothing on the server side.

[Bear Bibeault]

What have you written so far?

[viktor boulg]

I have a piece of HTML code, but it does not allow me to post it.

[Brian Lang]

Yes, unfortunately you can't post HTML bits, but you might consider creating a text document and linking to it.

The gist of what you want to do is relatively simple. You want to use onclick event handlers for each link in your menu, pointing to a function that will determine which event was triggered and then retrieving the correct text for that function. You can do this via hidden div elements on your page (e.g. having hidden elements that already contain text suddenly appear), or retrieving the text using the XMLHttpRequest object (Ajax, in other words). Either method is relatively simple to implement, and if you use a JavaScript library like jQuery it's trivial.

[Eric Pascarello]

replace the o in onclick with &111;

Eric

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Eric Pascarello:
replace the o in onclick with &111;

Correction: o
[ December 01, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]