Need to use jQuery.find to find element with specific style

Question

Right... I need to find all < ul style="display: block;"> elements, so that I can set it do display:none.

I think I'm on the right path here... but not quite there:

jQuery('#adminMenu li').find("ul").css('display'); 

For advance users: how can I find and change the style with one line?

Answer 1

You may be able to use the attribute selectors, and the 'contains' option

$('#adminMenu li ul[style*="display:block"]').hide() 

This essentially says 'any ul who's style attribute contains the text display:block'

Answer 2

That's tricky as stated but is solvable other ways. The easiest is:

$("#adminMenu li ul:visible").hide(); 

assuming items are either hidden or not. Of course, considering you want to hide them all why not just:

$("#adminMenu li ul").hide(); 

Try and avoid changing CSS style directly. It's problematic. It's hard to reverse and as you're discovering hard to search for. Use a class instead:

#adminMenu li ul { display: none; } ul.block { display: block; } 

with:

$("#adminMenu li ul").removeClass("block"); 

or

$("#adminMenu li ul.block").removeClass("block");