Originally Posted by hijax Why on earth would anyone still be using Javascript for this kind of thing. I type 4-5 lines of code in Jquery and I get the same results. $(document).ready(function () { $('.div').click(function () { $('ul.div').slideToggle('slow'); }); });

Oh, great idea. Why not include the kilobytes and kilobytes of code that jQuery is for a simple code like that.

People still use pure, library-less javascript over jQuery due to load times. The load time you saved from those couple of lines of code is now eaten up by a giant library between your head tags.