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I have ranted in the past about people who see a nested list and think "that needs to have little pluses and minuses in it to make it dynamically browsable!"
I stand by that rant. 95% of the time it's absolutely unnecessary. However, in some cases it really might come in handy — and in a lot of other cases people just like the shiny. So I thought to myself: now that I know more about JavaScript (and have discovered the magic of Prototype), how could I improve this?
The result is my CollapsibleList utility. No more mucking around with 'onclick' attributes — simply drop in the script and a bit of CSS, call "new CollapsibleList('myListID');", and Robert's your parent's sibling.
Bonus features: javascript calls to expand entirely, collapse entirely, or collapse to a specific level. Magical pluses and minuses automatically keep up.
I stand by that rant. 95% of the time it's absolutely unnecessary. However, in some cases it really might come in handy — and in a lot of other cases people just like the shiny. So I thought to myself: now that I know more about JavaScript (and have discovered the magic of Prototype), how could I improve this?
The result is my CollapsibleList utility. No more mucking around with 'onclick' attributes — simply drop in the script and a bit of CSS, call "new CollapsibleList('myListID');", and Robert's your parent's sibling.
Bonus features: javascript calls to expand entirely, collapse entirely, or collapse to a specific level. Magical pluses and minuses automatically keep up.
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