Introduction

This would be a simple, quick and easy tutorial. The reason I make this tutorial is for my upcoming post which will show you the plugins and scripts that I used in my most recent project. It's going to be a really useful post and make sure you won't miss it :)

This script is fairly straight forward. What it does is using the UL list and allow user to toggle to display the content of LI items. This is a really useful user interface feature that it helps designers to save space and build a less complicated user interface. It eliminates redundant element and allow user view the content only when they want to see it.

And...... this is how it will look like:

1. HTML

It consists of UL list and the rest is quite self-explanatory.

<ul id="toggle-view">
	<li>
		<h3>Title 1</h3>

		<span>+</span>
		<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim.</p>
	</li>
	<li>
		<h3>Title 2</h3>

		<span>+</span>
		<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim.</p>
	</li>
	<li>
		<h3>Title 3</h3>

		<span>+</span>
		<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim.</p>
	</li>
</ul>

2. CSS

I used the minimum CSS code to style this tutorial. The most important thing is, we have to make sure the P is hidden by default.

#toggle-view {
	list-style:none;	
	font-family:arial;
	font-size:11px;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	width:300px;
}

	#toggle-view li {
		margin:10px;
		border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
		position:relative;
		cursor:pointer;
	}
	
	#toggle-view h3 {
		margin:0;
		font-size:14px;
	}

	#toggle-view span {
		position:absolute;
		right:5px; top:0;
		color:#ccc;
		font-size:13px;
	}
	
	#toggle-view p {
		margin:5px 0;
		display:none;
	}	

3. Javascript

This would be one of my shortest jQuery code! We attach click event to the LI item and everytime a user click on the item check if P tag is visible. If it's hidden, show it otherwise hide it. Also, it will change the html value for the SPAN to either plus or negative sign.

$(document).ready(function () {
	
	$('#toggle-view li').click(function () {

		var text = $(this).children('p');

		if (text.is(':hidden')) {
			text.slideDown('200');
			$(this).children('span').html('-');		
		} else {
			text.slideUp('200');
			$(this).children('span').html('+');		
		}
		
	});

});

Conclusion

I hope you will like this quick and short tutorial! :) stay tuned for my upcoming post!