Is there a way to switch between showing and hiding without my navigation menu expanding?

I am currently working on creating an index for a large list. However, I have encountered an issue where clicking on a letter to display its contents also pushes the other letters on the index bar (left nav) down. I want the other letters to stay collapsed when toggling the contents. I have tried using float, but it floated too far away, and margin-left sometimes works depending on the browser size. Now I am attempting to clear floats with jQuery, but I seem to be doing something wrong.

<div class="list-container ">  
  <div class="title">
    <button>A</button>
  </div>
  <div class="title-contents"> 
   <li class="contents-description">
     <a href="#">&#10009; 50 Wheel Mfg.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-size:100%;color:yellow;">
     <a href="#">&starf;</a></span>
   </li>
   <p>
    <strong>Class Code:</strong> 50
    <br><strong>Premium Base: </strong>Gross Sales
    <br><strong>Note:</strong>
    <br>The following shall be separately classified and rated:
    <br>- food
    <br>- drink
   </p>
 </div>
 <div class="title">
  <button>B</button>
 </div>
</div>

As for my jQuery code:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.title-contents').hide();
  $('p').hide();

  $('.title').click(function() {
    $(this).next('.title-contents').css({"marginLeft": "200px"
    }).css({"clear": "both"}).fadeToggle(700);
  });

  $('.contents-description').click(function() {
    $(this).next('p').css("background-color", "white").fadeToggle(700);
    $(this).css("font-weight", "bold");
  });

});

Answer №1

To prevent your .title-contents from affecting the layout of the page, you can utilize the "position: absolute;" CSS property, which takes them out of the document flow. This will ensure that they do not disturb the positioning of the following navigation elements.

Check out the revised code on this updated fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/abc123/4/

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