So I'm building a form in HTML that makes use of a lot of checkboxes and hidden Divs. Right now I'm using
function HideDiv1() {
var checkBox = document.getElementById("Check1");
var div = document.getElementById("Div1");
if (checkBox.checked == true) {
div.style.display = "block";
} else {
div.style.display = "none";
}
}<input type="checkbox" id="Check1">CheckBox to show Div1
<div id="Div1" style="display: none;">I should be hidden, assuming the author didn't mess up!</div>To hide each div based on the appropriate checkbox. But this means that I am copying and rewriting this function every time and the section where I like to keep my functions is getting quite large. I was wondering if there was an easier way to do this such that I would only need one function and I could dynamically show and hide Divs without needing to copy and rewrite this function every time.
(If there is some easy JQuery solution to this: please keep in mind that I have no clue how to use JQuery)
This may be a duplicate, I saw the answer once before in the past but I have no idea how to find it again :(
You can use data attributes to identify which div to show when the checkbox is changed.
You can do this by listening for the change event on each checkbox and toggling the corresponding div with jQuery.toggle:
$('input[type=checkbox]').change(function(){
$('div[data-id='+$(this).data('target')+']').toggle()
})<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" data-target="1">CheckBox to show Div1
<div style="display: none;" data-id="1">Div1</div>
<br/>
<input type="checkbox" data-target="2">CheckBox to show Div2
<div style="display: none;" data-id="2">Div2</div>Vanilla JS implementation:
document.addEventListener('click', function(e){
if(e.target.matches('input[type=checkbox]')){
let target = document.querySelector('div[data-id="'+e.target.dataset.target+'"]');
target.style.display = target.style.display == "none" ? "block" : "none";
}
})<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" data-target="1">CheckBox to show Div1
<div style="display: none;" data-id="1">Div1</div>
<br/>
<input type="checkbox" data-target="2">CheckBox to show Div2
<div style="display: none;" data-id="2">Div2</div>You would add an onchange attribute to the checkbox to call a single function called hideDiv and pass it two arguments that are the ids of the checkbox and the div that you are hiding with that checkbox:
onchange="hideDiv("check1","div1")"
...then hideDiv uses the arguments passed to it to toggle the correct div:
function hideDiv(checkId, divId) {
const checkbox = document.getElementById(checkId)
const div = document.getElementById(divId);
if (checkBox.checked == true) {
div.style.display = "block";
} else {
div.style.display = "none";
}
}
Get in the habit of using let for variables that you need to change and const for variables that will not change value instead of var.