jQuery is driving me crazy. Ive looked around the web for a simple category expander slider, but didn't find it. Ive tried to create it here.
The problem I am facing is trying to hide the () element previously shown () n. If there is another show () n element before the hide () call, the hide () call for the first element is ignored!
Forgive me for posting the full HTML (please feel free to suggest where I will have to contain all the code samples in the future).
If anyone has suggestions for a jQuery plugin or other implementation of what I'm trying to do, point me in that direction - I'm glad to use something already done.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$().ready(function() {
$("ul.box_li li.parent").mouseenter(function(event){
event.stopPropagation();
$(this).children("ul:first").show('slide',{direction: 'left'});
}).mouseleave(function(event){
event.stopPropagation();
$(this).children("ul:first").hide('slide',{direction: 'left'});
});
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
body {font-size:10pt;}
ul.box_li li.parent {position:relative;}
ul.box_li li {background-color:#e6e6e6;width:200px;border:1px solid red;list-style-type:none;padding:5px;}
ul.box_li>li ul {display: none;position: absolute;top: 0;left: 100%;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul class="box_li">
<li class="parent">
FIRST
<ul>
<li class="parent">
FIRST_SUB_1
<ul>
<li>FIRST_SUB_1_SUB_1</li>
<li>FIRST_SUB_1_SUB_2</li>
<li>FIRST_SUB_1_SUB_3</li>
<li>FIRST_SUB_1_SUB_4</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>FIRST_SUB_2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="parent">
SECOND
<ul>
<li>SECOND_SUB_1</li>
<li>SECOND_SUB_2</li>
<li>SECOND_SUB_3</li>
<li>SECOND_SUB_4</li>
<li>SECOND_SUB_5</li>
<li>SECOND_SUB_6</li>
<li>SECOND_SUB_7</li>
<li>SECOND_SUB_8</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="parent">
THIRD
</li>
<li class="parent">
FOURTH
<ul>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_1</li>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_2</li>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_3</li>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_4</li>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_5</li>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_6</li>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_7</li>
<li>FOURTH_SUB_8</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="parent">
FIFTH
<ul>
<li>FIFTH_SUB_1</li>
<li>FIFTH_SUB_2</li>
<li>FIFTH_SUB_3</li>
<li>FIFTH_SUB_4</li>
<li>FIFTH_SUB_5</li>
<li>FIFTH_SUB_6</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>