Show/Hide text using jquery

Question

Basically I have 6 buttons and 6 paragraphs (each one button relating to a specific paragraph). I want to show a paragraph of text when a certain button is clicked, and then hide that paragraph when the button is clicked again.

I have looked through similar questions but cannot seem to get it to work. I think its because I have only started trying to use jquery and dont really understand the problem. All hep would be appreciated! thanks!

html:

     <div class="button"><div class="button float_l"><a href="#">More..</a></div>
     <div class="button"><div class="button float_l"><a href="#">More..</a></div>
     <div class="button"><div class="button float_l"><a href="#">More..</a></div>   


        <p><div id="text1">Paragraph 1</div></p>

        <p><div id="text2">Paragraph 2</div></p>

        <p><div id="text3">Paragraph 3</div></p>

javascript:

     $(document).ready(function () {

     $("#text1").hide();
     $(".button").click(function(){
     $("#text1").toggle();

     $("#text2").hide();
     $(".button").click(function(){
     $("#text1").toggle();

     });

the first button should relate to the first paragraph and so on. Iv tried using the 'this' function to relate to a specific button but must be using it incorrectly because it dosent work.

Answer 1

First of all, you have to identify your different buttons, if you use the "button" class, you will always refer to the all 3 buttons.

Also you don't need to put a div element inside a p element.

So you can do something like this:

<div id="btn1" class="button"><a href="#">More..</a></div>
<div id="btn2" class="button"><a href="#">More..</a></div>
<div id="btn3" class="button"><a href="#">More..</a></div>   


<p id="p1">Paragraph 1</p>
<p id="p2">Paragraph 2</p>
<p id="p3">Paragraph 3</p>

Then, javascript:

$(document).ready(function () {

    $("p").hide();

    $("#btn1").click(function(){
         $("#p1").toggle();
    });

    $("#btn2").click(function(){
         $("#p2").toggle();
    });

    $("#btn2").click(function(){
         $("#p2").toggle();
    });
});