Duncan Glendinning

Hi there!!

Despite looking on your site, I can't find the solution to what I want
to do, so am hoping you can help.
Am using your Nested list collapsing script, and when the page loads,
the tree is fully collapsed, as you would expect. What I would like to
do is be able to set it to have one branch of it (or sub branch)
expanded when the page loads. Is there any way of doing this?

Many thanks in advance for your help, and what a fantastic, simple script!!

All the best,
Duncan Glendinning

*Good Afternoon Mark,

Sorry, still no luck. I have this:
*
<ul  class="maketree" id="treeversion">
<li>Book 1
<ul>
 <li><a href="someHref">Chapter 1</a></li>
 <li><a href="someHref">Chapter 2</a></li>
 <li><a href="someHref">Chapter 3</a></li>
 <li><a href="someHref">Chapter 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Book 2
<ul>
 <li><a href="someHref">Chapter 1</a></li>
 <li><a href="someHref">Chapter 2</a></li>
 <li>Chapter 3
   <ul>
     <li><a href="listCollapseExample.html">Ex 1</a></li>
     <li><a href="someHref">Ex 2</a></li>
   </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="javascript:notA();">Chapter 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="last">Book 3
<ul id="expandthis">
   <li ><a href="javascript:notA();">Chapter 1</a></li>
   <li><a href="javascript:notA();">Chapter 2</a></li>
   <li><a href="javascript:notA();">Chapter 3</a></li>
   <li class="last"><a href="javascript:notA();">Chapter 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

*Followed by this:*

<script type="text/javascript">
   compactMenu('treeversion',false,'&plusmn; ');
   selfLink('treeversion','samePage',true);
   expandCollapseAll('expandthis',true);
</script>

*And I am hoping the Book 3 would load expanded, showing* Chapters 1, 2, and
3. No luck though.
*Can you point me in the right direction?*
*
Best regards,
Duncan

Tarquin,

I get you regarding the links... how do I make one branch of the list
load already expanded though then, seeing as I can't seem to be able
to do this..your documentation says its using expandCollapseAll() but
then as you said I don't want to load all the branches expanded, just
the Book 3 one so it shows its chapters when the page loads.

Thank you so much for your help, really appreciate it.

Duncan

Tarquin,

Sorted, thank you so much!
Last question, I promise.
How can I use  selfLink() to expand a branch whose parent is not a
link to anything?

For example:

<ul class="maketree" id="treeversion">
<li>Book 1
    <ul>

        <li><a href="book1chap1.html">Chapter 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="book1chap2.html">Chapter 2</a></li>
        <li><a href="book1chap3.html">Chapter 3</a></li>
        <li class="last"><a href="book1chap4.html">Chapter 4</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li>Book 2
    <ul>
        <li><a href="book2chap1.html">Chapter 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="book2chap2.html">Chapter 2</a></li>
        <li >Chapter 3
            <ul>
                <li><a href="book2chap2ex1.html">Ex 1</a></li>
                <li class="last"><a href="book2chap2ex2.html">Ex 2</a></li>
            </ul>

        </li>
        <li class="last"><a href="book2chap4.html">Chapter 4</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li class="last"><A HREF='book3.html'>Book 3</A>
<ul >
    <li ><a href="book3chap1.html">Chapter 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="book3chap2.html">Chapter 2</a></li>

    <li><a href="book3chap3.html">Chapter 3</a></li>
    <li class="last"><a href="book3chap4.html">Chapter 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


What would I do to expand down to Chapter 3 of Book 2, seeing as the
actual Chapter 3 li isn't in an href with a url you can reference in
the selfLink() function?

Thanks again,

Duncan

Duncan,

>         <li><a href="book2chap2.html">Chapter 2</a></li>
>         <li >Chapter 3
>             <ul>
>                 <li><a href="book2chap2ex1.html">Ex 1</a></li>
>
> What would I do to expand down to Chapter 3 of Book 2

selfLink one of its siblings instead. In this case, something like:
selfLink('treeversion','',true,'book2chap2.html');

(It is also possible to abuse stateToFromStr to get it to expand even if
there is not a sibling with a link, but that's generally much more
trouble than it's worth, since it's not designed for that purpose, and it
will not cope with you adding or removing list items. So if you did need to
do that, it's generally easier to selfLink a child of chapter 3 like
'book2chap2ex1.html', and live with the differences.)