Thanks! I just sorted that out.
Answered my own question. I needed to prepend # to the id for the
jQuery functions to work.
$('#' + id).show();
On Oct 6, 7:29 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try:
>
> $('#'+id).show();
>
> On Oct 6, 1:17 pm, vjimw <im.a.machobea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is my .ready function using tabs and a class of .remote to start
> > using the history plugin
>
> > // Show and hide product grids
> > $(document).ready(function() {
> > $(".remote").click(function(event) {
> > document.location.hash=this.title;
> > show_subcat_menu();
> > toogle_subcat_ul('ul_sub_category_'+this.id.replace(/\|/g,'_')); //
> > replace all pipes with underscore chars
> > });
>
> > });
>
> > And specifically that function calls this to help show and hide some
> > navigation elements with context.
>
> > function toogle_subcat_ul(id) {
> > $("[id^=ul_sub_category_]").hide();
> > $(id).show(); // does not work
> > document.getElementById(id).style.display="block"; // does work
>
> > }
>
> > Any ideas why the display=block works while the jQuery show() does
> > not. Any ideas?
>
> > Thanks!
> > Jim
