Basic Show and Hide » Learning jQuery - Tips, Techniques, Tutorials

Basic Show and Hide » Learning jQuery - Tips, Techniques, Tutorials: "As promised in my last entry, I'll be showing you a simple effect that you can do using jQuery: showing or hiding something, or a group of things, on the page. The two functions that let us do this are, not surprisingly, show() and hide().

jQuery also comes with another function called toggle(), which will make matching elements visible if they are hidden or hidden if they are visible.

So, let's get down to business. We're going to start with our $(document).ready() function."