Title: Showhide javascript in page template
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Showhide javascript in page template
* [boardtc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boardtc/)
* (@boardtc)
* [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showhide-javascript-in-page-template-1/)
* I am trying to include some javascript to show/hide a section with code that
works fine in a html page. I have added
* ``
* to the head section of header.php and my page template includes in the pagepost
div:
* ```
```
* showhide.js is in my theme directory with my theme style.css having the necessary
css, #wrapper & #showhide
* The first thing I see is the include file, I do not see a What’s new anchor to
toggle the show/hide. Any thoughts?
* I also want to have the section hidden at startup. In a regularly html page I
achieve this with
* ``
* Thanks, Tom.
* ps. A variation of this post is in the How-To and Troubleshooting but has [remained unanswered.](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/244649?replies=1#post-988837)
I could not find a place to contact the moderators to move it so have reposted
here.
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* [fwdrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fwdrew/)
* (@fwdrew)
* [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showhide-javascript-in-page-template-1/#post-992565)
* I have no idea what your showhide.js file is doing, I’ll also assume you are
calling it with the correct paramaters (without seeing it, it is hard to know)
but try this:
* ```
```
* You had regular html inside javascript tags which is why you didnt see the anchor
text.
* Hope that gives you some insight.
* Regards,
* Drew
* [t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os/)
* (@t31os)
* [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showhide-javascript-in-page-template-1/#post-992569)
* If you’re using the onclick event on an A tag, you will still need to add a HREF
onto it…
* `What’s New`
* One drawback however is that you have to enter something into the HREF, and using#
will cause the browser window to shoot to the top…
* If you don’t want that to happen, attach the onclick event to a different tag,
an image would be suited.
* I use a small script for showing and hiding elements to, so i know the above
to be true assuming the script works much the same as my own…
* Of course if you must use a link then you can use an anchor to keep it around
the same area of the page…
* `What’s New`
* Thread Starter [boardtc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boardtc/)
* (@boardtc)
* [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/showhide-javascript-in-page-template-1/#post-992591)
* Thanks guys. t31os, I added href=”#” but did not see the anchor until I removed
the scrips tag ‘