I have a table with a thead and tbody sections. I have applied a slideToggle on this successfully, but the animation is broken.
When a user clicks on the thead, I want the contents of the tbody to slide up. Currently what happens is the section simply disappears, without any animation.
Here is the table
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">TABLE HEADING</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="first" colspan="1">Cell Contents</td>
<td colspan="1">Cell Contents</td>
<td colspan="1">Cell Contents</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
And here is the jQuery I am using:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("thead").click(function () {
$(this).next("tbody").slideToggle("slow");
}
)
});
</script>
It disappears because <tbody>
normally will get no shorter than the tallest td
, no matter what you set its height to with CSS.
This is why the natural-height tbody
just seems to disappear, while the one with artificial extra-height appears to run until the tr
reached its natural height.
You can kludge around this with tbody {display:block;}
. See the kludge at jsFiddle.
But, notice the effect that has when a table height is set.
Probably, the best way is to wrap the whole table in a div and slideToggle
that, like so:
<table class="AbbyNormal">
<thead><tr><td colspan="3">TABLE HEADING</td></tr></thead>
</table>
<div class="tableWrap">
<table class="AbbyNormal">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="first" colspan="1">Cell Contents</td>
<td colspan="1">Cell Contents</td>
<td colspan="1">Cell Contents</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
Just be sure and fix the table widths the same.