showing and hiding sections of html based on the url

[homeguard]

I need to show / hide sections of html code on my page based on what the url says, has anyone done anything like this?

 

[trollacious]

With client-side Javascript, sure, but it's much better to do this with server-side scripting.

Lee

 

[homeguard]

well this is on a sharepoint site and i dont really have access to the server infos at all, do you happen to have an example of what that code might look like?

 

[trollacious]

Google is your friend.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=javascript+hide+show+HTML

Lee

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You'd need to parse the URL. You can access it by using something like:

var theUrl = window.location;

Then once you've parsed it, you can show / hide sections of content using CSS. Of course, you need a way to access the elements. Let's assume you wanted to hide a DIV element with an ID of "wibble". You would use:

document.getElementById('wibble').style.display = 'none';

To show it again, you would use:

document.getElementById('wibble').style.display = 'block';

Hope this helps,
Dan



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