This is more a javascript question than wordpress-specific but I am using javascript to display a very simple accordion style menu on a page. The most js I know is how to copy and paste so I'm wondering how to *not* display the first item in the list as expanded when the page initially loads. This is the code:
// Hide dd only in DOM-capable browsers.
if (document.getElementsByTagName) document.write("<style type='text/css'>@media screen{ dl.accordeon dd {display: none;} }</style>");
var accordeonDL = {
item : 0, // define the first displayed definition description
setup : function(){
if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return;
var el = document.getElementsByTagName("DL");
for (var i = 0; i < el.length; i++) {
if (el[i].className.indexOf("accordeon") == -1) continue;
accordeonDL.makeLinks(el[i]);
// show 'item' on load
var getDT = el[i].getElementsByTagName("DT")[accordeonDL.item];
getDT.innerHTML = getDT.getElementsByTagName("A")[0].innerHTML;
getDT.className = "accordeon-active";
el[i].getElementsByTagName("DD")[accordeonDL.item].style.display = "block";
}
},
makeLinks : function(dl){
el = dl.getElementsByTagName("DT");
for (var i = 0; i < el.length; i++) {
if (!el[i].getElementsByTagName("A")[0]){
el[i].innerHTML = "<a onclick='accordeonDL.showDD(this);' href='javascript:;'>" + el[i].innerHTML + "</a>";
el[i].className = "";
}
}
},
showDD : function(a){
dt = a.parentNode; dl = dt.parentNode; dd = dt.nextSibling;
if (dd.nodeType != 1) dd = dd.nextSibling;
el = dl.getElementsByTagName("DD")
for (var i = 0; i < el.length; i++) {
el[i].style.display = "none";
}
dd.style.display = "block";
accordeonDL.makeLinks(dl);
dt.innerHTML = a.innerHTML;
dt.className = "accordeon-active";
}
}
/* End Accordeon Definition List */
//Onload Handling
var oldonload=window.onload;if(typeof window.onload!='function'){
window.onload=accordeonDL.setup;
}else{window.onload=function(){oldonload();
accordeonDL.setup();}}
/* setup faster by deleting these lines and adding
<script type="text/javascript">accordeonDL.setup();</script>
before the closing body tag in your HTML */
Please ignore the misspelling. It's bothering me as well. I know that I need to either delete or change something in that first chunk but I don't know what.