Collapsible Content on Mouseover?

[MontyV]

Hello I'm building a site and know nothing about Javascript. I wanted to use a collapsible content sections to minimize the length of my site if user want. Well I started digging around to find some code which may work. I did end up finding something at Harry Maugans site.

I've got it working as he describes but I wanted the it to possible function slightly differently. I was hoping somebody could help me expand on this. Here is the set up functions he has.

var timerlen = 5;
var slideAniLen = 250;

var timerID = new Array();
var startTime = new Array();
var obj = new Array();
var endHeight = new Array();
var moving = new Array();
var dir = new Array();

function slidedown(objname){
        if(moving[objname])
                return;

        if(document.getElementById(objname).style.display != "none")
                return; // cannot slide down something that is already visible

        moving[objname] = true;
        dir[objname] = "down";
        startslide(objname);
}

function slideup(objname){
        if(moving[objname])
                return;

        if(document.getElementById(objname).style.display == "none")
                return; // cannot slide up something that is already hidden

        moving[objname] = true;
        dir[objname] = "up";
        startslide(objname);
}

function startslide(objname){
        obj[objname] = document.getElementById(objname);

        endHeight[objname] = parseInt(obj[objname].style.height);
        startTime[objname] = (new Date()).getTime();

        if(dir[objname] == "down"){
                obj[objname].style.height = "1px";
        }

        obj[objname].style.display = "block";

        timerID[objname] = setInterval('slidetick(\'' + objname + '\');',timerlen);
}

function slidetick(objname){
        var elapsed = (new Date()).getTime() - startTime[objname];

        if (elapsed > slideAniLen)
                endSlide(objname)
        else {
                var d =Math.round(elapsed / slideAniLen * endHeight[objname]);
                if(dir[objname] == "up")
                        d = endHeight[objname] - d;

                obj[objname].style.height = d + "px";
        }

        return;
}

function endSlide(objname){
        clearInterval(timerID[objname]);

        if(dir[objname] == "up")
                obj[objname].style.display = "none";

        obj[objname].style.height = endHeight[objname] + "px";

        delete(moving[objname]);
        delete(timerID[objname]);
        delete(startTime[objname]);
        delete(endHeight[objname]);
        delete(obj[objname]);
        delete(dir[objname]);

        return;
}

function toggleSlide(objname){
  		if(document.getElementById(objname).style.display == "none"){
    	// div is hidden, so let's slide down
    	slidedown(objname);
  		}else{
    	// div is not hidden, so slide up
    	slideup(objname);
  		}
}

function toggleComment(objname) {
  		if (document.getElementById(objname).style.display != "none") {
    	slideup(objname);
    	document.getElementById(objname + '_link').innerHTML = "Open Quick Comment";
  		}
  		else {
    	slidedown(objname);
    	document.getElementById(objname + '_link').innerHTML = "Close Quick Comment";
  		}
}

Currently I have one link that minimizes and expands when I click on the link. Well instead of clicking on the link I wanted the menu to expand and minimize when moused over and only having one section of the site open at a time. Like this the support section of the Apple Site.

Please help.

- MontyV

[jasonahoule]

instead of calling it on onclick, call the function on onmouseover

[MontyV]

instead of calling it on onclick, call the function on onmouseover

Damn that was easy. Thank you very much. I love this I should start looking into start learning this.