Posted by Ben C on 06/16/07 09:42

On 2007-06-16, Jon Slaughter <Jon_Slaughter@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:11Oci.33402$Um6.1083@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net...
>>I have some formating working where I want the user to click on a block and
>>have it hide/show another block.
>>
>> The issue is that if I use active then it only hides it as long as the
>> mouse button is down and if I use link then it only displays it when its
>> clicked.
>>
>> I need a way to toggle the state from display to block(or back where it
>> was).
>>
>> Is this at all possible with css? (else it makes it completely useless for
>> what I'm trying to do ;/) (which I guess ends up forcing me to use js ;/)
>>
>>
>> I got an idea to trick css into doing a toggle but want to make sure that
>> its the only thing left to try before I spend any time doing it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>
> Again, to be clear, everything works when I use active except that the
> effect I want only lasts while the user is holding down the button. I want
> it do the effect when the user clicks the button and then "undo" it when he
> clicks again.

You need to use JavaScript.

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