I have a simple div in one of my views that I want to click to hide another element on the page. I put this in my application.js But it doesn't do anything. Did I put it in the wrong place?
function toggleNewPostForm {
$('.new-post-btn').hide();
}
Use document ready to make sure document is loaded before selecting an element from HTML and call your function inside
function toggleNewPostForm(){
$('.new-post-btn').hide();
};
$( document ).ready(function() {
toggleNewPostForm();
});
function <name>{<body>}() is not a valid function-definition...Try something like this
<div class="xyz">Click here!</div>
in javascript
$(".xyz").click(function(){
$('.new-post-btn').hide();
});
Also check if event listener is added after document ready method? i.e
$(function(){
$(".xyz").click(function(){
$('.new-post-btn').hide();
});
});
If this is the only js you have, there will be no click-behaviour. You have to tell the element, that is has to react to a click-event.
Try this in your application.js-file:
function toggleNewPostForm() {
$('.new-post-btn').hide();
}
$(document).on('ready page:load', function(){
$('.new-post-btn').on('click', function(){
toggleNewPostForm();
});
});
P.S.: As RGraham points out, you have to write the parameter-paranthesis if you define a function.
P.P.S.: In ruby on rails, you should check against 'ready' and 'page:load' as document-ready-handlers, because Ruby on Rails uses the "Turbolinks"-library by default.
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token {is what you should see in your error console