Template talk:Toggler

Issues

• template does not work correctly when a to-be-hidden element belongs to several classes: element will be hidden even if all others of that class are shown.
  • possible solution: add a switch _hideexcept to the .js file which
    • checks if the element has more than one class
    • reads all class names of the element into an array
    • skips the class name of the toggle call
    • checks all other class names for the display value of the corresponding toggler (which must receive a tag id="_toggle-anchor-{{{CLASS}}} from Template:Event)
    • breaks if any such toggler with a value other than "none" is found
• also needed: a way to deal with higher-level switches.
  • probably best: give separate variables for each subgroup
    • "show" would work if _toggler_show-{{{1}}} (etc.) was repeated here in this template, counting to the maximum occurring number of regions in a group.
    • "hide" requires the same _hideexcept check as above, but that check must ignore all of the classes referring to sub-regions.
    • the sub-region togglers should all be set to the correct value as well, which requires repeated _toggler_show--_toggle-anchor-{{{1}}} (I hope).
      • this may become difficult if we have higher-level switches with overlapping sub-regions, because then we would also have to change the toggle state of the other higher-level switch - for advanced programmers only ;)

note: these are mainly notes to myself. if anyone is good with javascript, please contact me. Cedh 19:51, 21 July 2008 (UTC)