Expandable divs ?

[wragen22]

Hi There,
I am trying to create a site that is just a list of items from the top down. Ie – words in large font. All of which are centered on a page.

I would like to be able to have a user click on a word which would then expand a box that shows more information as well as changing the background color and text color across the full length of the page 100%.
Contained in that box would be a narrow container with paragraph info.

First of all i am having trouble setting up my html with the associated divs that might allow for this.

Secondly, I am thinking this will have to happen by jquery.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Andy Howells]

Please create a [codepen](http://codepen.io) of what you have already so we can add code and edit to help you achieve what you want.

JQuery will probably be the best solution for this.

[wragen22]

http://codepen.io/joe/full/jwcKl
Ok, one more issue. I wanted to add an underline on link-hover on the nav and it’s bumping down the container upon hover… I made the link

a:hover {
border-bottom: 2px solid;
position: relative;
}

[wolfcry911]

Here’s a fork of your pen
http://codepen.io/wolfcry911/pen/urGlg

To solve the underline bumping the container down I simply put a transparent border on the normal state. You could also change the height/line-height for the same effect, but this works well enough.

You should include all the info for the page in the html (unless you wanted to use ajax, but I think for a small page I’d avoid that route), then with javascript hide the text and add a function to reveal on click. My example was just thrown together – hopefully someone with more jqueryfoo will come along and clean it up (and make it smoother).

[wragen22]

Thank you @wolfcry911

[wragen22]

How would I link up the js to my code?

[wragen22]

@wofcry911 struggling with trying to ge the js to automatically cose one expanded div when clicking on another. Also for some reason when closing a div the background color disappears and then the blox slides up. Any idea?

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