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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Time for action – moving around an HTML document


Perform the following steps to move from one element to another in JavaScript:

  1. We're going to keep working with the files we set up in the previous section. Open up the scripts.js file that's inside your scripts folder. Add a document ready statement, then write a new empty function called dynamicFAQ, as follows:

    $(document).ready(function(){
    });
    
    function dynamicFAQ() {
      // Our function will go here  
    }
  2. Let's think through how we'd like this page to behave. We'd like to have all the answers to our questions hidden when the page is loaded. Then, when a user finds the question they're looking for, we'd like to show the associated answer when they click on the question.

    This means the first thing we'll need to do is hide all the answers when the page loads. We can do this just like we did with the tab exercise in the Chapter 2, Enhancing Links. Get started by adding a class jsOff to the <body> tag, as follows:

    <body class="jsOff">

    Now...

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