Slide down and slide up div on click

Question

I am using the following code to open and close a div ( slide up/down ) using js

I have the slide down event attached to a button and the slide up event sttached to close text.

What I want is the button onclick to open and onclick again close the slide element.

Here is the JS

// slide down effect

$(function(){
$('.grabPromo').click(function(){
var parent = $(this).parents('.promo');
$(parent).find('.slideDown').slideDown();
});
$('.closeSlide').click(function(){
var parent = $(this).parents('.promo');
$(parent).find('.slideDown').slideUp();
});
});

The HTML:

<span class="grabPromo">Open</span>

and in the slide down area i have

<a class="closeSlide">Close</a>

Any help appreciated.

Ideally I want a down pointing arrow on the slide down button and a up pointing arrow to replace it to slide up on same button. And do away with the close link altogether.

Any help appreciated. Cheers

Answer 1

You can just use slideToggle() in the click function:

$('.grabPromo').click(function(e){
    $('.slideDown').slideToggle();
});

Here's a demo.

Answer 2

try this. it allows multiple items so isn't ID specific. and supports any content loaded via AJAX as well. jsfiddle is here

<div class='toggle_parent'>
  <div class='toggleHolder'>
    <span class='toggler'>Open</span>
    <span class-'toggler' style='display:none;'>Close</span>
  </div>
  <div class='toggled_content' style='display:none;'>
      My Content
  </div>
</div>

and

$('.toggler').live('click',function(){
  $(this).parent().children().toggle();  //swaps the display:none between the two spans
  $(this).parent().parent().find('.toggled_content').slideToggle();  //swap the display of the main content with slide action

});