How to show/hide DIVs with jQuery

Question

I want to make a function to show and hide a div tag and hide all others:

function showPage(showdiv){
    $(\'#midRight\').not(showdiv).hide(); 
    $(showdi         


        

Answer 1

You could write you selector to hide all child div's of midRight, then show the div with the passed ID. No need to cast to a String, since that is what you are passing:

function showPage(showdiv){
    $('#midRight > div').hide()  
    $(showdiv).show();    
}