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JavaScript

Posted by Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points

Jquery adding inline styles?

Hey ^ ^ I'm working on my own site and trying to use Jquery to make a menu for mobile view appear and disappear. For some reason, jquery adds its own inline styles to the menu like 'display:block' Its really weird, does anyone have a clue why? Please help =) thanks

4 Answers

Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith
Courses Plus Student 15,508 Points

It's being added as inline style because that is one of the most specific types of styling in CSS so it overrides almost anything else.

jQuery will add 'display:block' if you are using the show() method. The show method restores the hidden element back to its initial state— so if you had an element that was initially set to 'display:inline' and then it was hidden, the show() method would have it display inline again.

http://api.jquery.com/show/

Nicholas Olsen
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Nicholas Olsen
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,342 Points
Nicholas Olsen
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Nicholas Olsen
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 19,342 Points

I'm not sure how similar it is to the problem you're experiencing but I had a similar problem when I was working on this menu.

jQuery's animate() function adds inline styles to the menu so I had to use the animate function to reset the inline styles back to what I wanted them to be.

As Josh said, if you have code please post it.

Josh Hicks
Josh Hicks
14,146 Points
Josh Hicks
Josh Hicks
14,146 Points

Do you have any code samples?

Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points
Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points

Sorry for the late reply i've been really busy! It was really simple just using .show() and .hide() on a div. Now i realise i wanted .toggle() Just happy that it's something that's supposed to happen Thanks guys =)