Hide/show menu onclick javascript

Question

I want to do a hide/show menu that shows when you click the p -tag with id menu and hides when you click the same p -tag — but apparently I'm useless on JavaScript. I don't want to use jQuery, I really want to learn this! Someone out there?

Here is my HTML:

<nav>
    <p id="menu"> Menu</p>
        <ul id="menu-box">
            <li><a href="index.html">Start</a></li>
            <li><a href="animal.html">Animal</a></li>
            <li><a href="pictures.html">Pictures</a></li>
        </ul>
    </nav>  

Here is my JavaScript (so far):

function setUp() {
    document.getElementById("menu").onclick = setMenu;
}

function setMenu() {
    var menuBox = document.getElementById("menu-box");
    menuBox.className = "menuBox";   
}

setUp();

Answer 1

 function toggleMenu() { var menuBox = document.getElementById('menu-box'); if(menuBox.style.display == "block") { // if is menuBox displayed, hide it menuBox.style.display = "none"; } else { // if is menuBox hidden, display it menuBox.style.display = "block"; } } 

 <p id="menu" onclick="toggleMenu()"> Menu</p> <ul id="menu-box" style="display: block"> <li><a href="index.html">Start</a></li> <li><a href="animal.html">Animal</a></li> <li><a href="pictures.html">Pictures</a></li> </ul> 

Answer 2

If your learning this drop down ,then i suggest you to learn it from this button :)

<div class="dropdown">
  <button onclick="myFunction()" class="dropbtn">Dropdown</button>
  <div id="myDropdown" class="dropdown-content">
    <a href="#">Link 1</a>
    <a href="#">Link 2</a>
    <a href="#">Link 3</a>
  </div>
</div>

and add this style

/* Dropdown Button */
.dropbtn {
    background-color: #4CAF50;
    color: white;
    padding: 16px;
    font-size: 16px;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;
}

/* Dropdown button on hover & focus */
.dropbtn:hover, .dropbtn:focus {
    background-color: #3e8e41;
}

/* The container <div> - needed to position the dropdown content */
.dropdown {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
}

/* Dropdown Content (Hidden by Default) */
.dropdown-content {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: #f9f9f9;
    min-width: 160px;
    box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}

/* Links inside the dropdown */
.dropdown-content a {
    color: black;
    padding: 12px 16px;
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
}

/* Change color of dropdown links on hover */
.dropdown-content a:hover {background-color: #f1f1f1}

/* Show the dropdown menu (use JS to add this class to the .dropdown-content container when the user clicks on the dropdown button) */
.show {display:block;}

Now toggle the hide and show with javascript

When the user clicks on the button, toggle between hiding and showing the dropdown content

function myFunction() {
    document.getElementById("myDropdown").classList.toggle("show");
}

// Close the dropdown menu if the user clicks outside of it
window.onclick = function(event) {
  if (!event.target.matches('.dropbtn')) {

    var dropdowns = document.getElementsByClassName("dropdown-content");
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < dropdowns.length; i++) {
      var openDropdown = dropdowns[i];
      if (openDropdown.classList.contains('show')) {
        openDropdown.classList.remove('show');
      }
    }
  }
}

Answer 3

Use this:

 window.nav = { status: false, menu: function(){ if (nav.status){ // here put class when menu is open - eg: document.getElementById("menu-box").className = "menu-box menuopen"; nav.status = false; } else { // here put class when menu is closed - eg: document.getElementById("menu-box").className = "menu-box"; nav.status = true; } } } 

 .menu-box{ display: none; } .menuopen{ display: block; } 

 <nav> <p id="menu" onclick="nav.menu()"> Menu</p> <ul id="menu-box"> <li><a href="index.html">Start</a></li> <li><a href="animal.html">Animal</a></li> <li><a href="pictures.html">Pictures</a></li> </ul> </nav>