Send show/hide status with ajax

[Brad-102]

Hi, I'm building an application which generates a list of questions
and answers. Each question (and answer group) is surrounded by a div,
and all of the divs are sortable. When the sort order is changed, the
list is serialized and sent via .load() to a php script which updates
the question order in the mysql database, the script then returns a
refreshed question list in the new order.

This works great, and I've decided that I'd like the answers to be
hidden by default. This is easily achieved with show() and hide()
commands. The problem is that if a user shows the answers for question
two for instance (while all others remain hidden), and then re-orders
the list, the returned question list from the php script defaults to
all hidden again - which it shouldnt - id still question 2 to be
showing.

So basically, my question is whether it is possible to determine
whether an element is in it's show() or hide() state, and then to send
this info with a .load call? (so that when the call is returned, the
states can be loaded as they were.)

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Brad

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[Brad-102]

Any ideas on this anyone?

I suppose if there were a way to test whether an element was in either
its "show" or "hide" state, then I could send this via ajax... is that
possible though?

On Nov 4, 2:43 pm, Brad <bthompso...@...> wrote:

> Hi, I'm building an application which generates a list of questions
> and answers. Each question (and answer group) is surrounded by a div,
> and all of the divs are sortable. When the sort order is changed, the
> list is serialized and sent via .load() to a php script which updates
> the question order in the mysql database, the script then returns a
> refreshed question list in the new order.
>
> This works great, and I've decided that I'd like the answers to be
> hidden by default. This is easily achieved with show() and hide()
> commands. The problem is that if a user shows the answers for question
> two for instance (while all others remain hidden), and then re-orders
> the list, the returned question list from the php script defaults to
> all hidden again - which it shouldnt - id still question 2 to be
> showing.
>
> So basically, my question is whether it is possible to determine
> whether an element is in it's show() or hide() state, and then to send
> this info with a .load call? (so that when the call is returned, the
> states can be loaded as they were.)
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
>
> Brad

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