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How to hide any html element by using another class in javascript?

How can I hide an element below hide_below_element selector using Javascript.
<div class"hide_below_element">asdfasdfasd</div>
<div><a> the element for hiding form hide_below_element selector</a> </div>
<div><a>Another information no need to hide </a> </div>
Thanks for your supported us.

I'm not quite sure what you want to accomplish, but what about this :
$('.hide_below_element').next().hide();

How do I target an <a> inside a <div>?

I have this code : http://jsfiddle.net/Qchmqs/BSKrG/
<div class="step"><-- this is darned wrong
<div id="step2"><a>Darn</a></div>
<div id="step2"><a>Darn</a></div>
<div id="step2"><a>Darn</a></div>
</div>
<div class="step"><-- this works fine
<div id="step2"><a>Darn</a>
<a>Darn</a>
<a>Darn</a></div>
</div>
The first block is three links inside three separate divs inside a surrounding div
The bottom block has the links inside one parent div
I am trying to change the background of an active link, but it won't turn off in the upper block.
The script works well with the bottom links but not working as expected with the upper ones
PS : The active class should be toggled only from the Links i have a lot of other scripts in the page that uses the .active links from this list.

For starters, do what JamesJohnson said and remove the multiple IDs. They can only cause you problems down the road.
In the upper links, the a tags aren't siblings because you put each one in its own div. So you need to do this to remove classes from the other as:
$(this).parent().siblings('div').children('a').removeClass('active');
http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/BSKrG/1/
Unfortunately, that breaks the functionality on the lower links. You can achieve success in both places by adding andSelf to the parent siblings:
$(this).parent().siblings('div').andSelf().children('a').removeClass('active');
http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/BSKrG/2/

It's not working on the upper ones because you're assigning the same id to the divs. You should probably use the class attribute instead:
<div class="step2"><a>Damn</a></div>
<div class="step2"><a>Damn</a></div>
<div class="step2"><a>Damn</a></div>
After making the above changes, you should be able to do this:
$(".step2 a").text("Hello World!");

maybe this:
<div class="step">
<div id="step2"><a>Damn</a>
<a>Damn</a>
<a>Damn</a></div>
</div>
<div class="step">
<div id="step2"><a>Damn</a>
<a>Damn</a>
<a>Damn</a></div>
</div>

Using radio inputs you can create this effect without any JS at all, which degrades gracefully from its intended appearance (a red backgrounded "damn") to damn with radios next to it (sending the same information).
ironically, this example at JSfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/YvQdj/
My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure this doesn't work in older versions of IE without some finagling.

Adding Additional Div breaks Existing Jquery Code

I have a very simple div with an image inside:
<div class="stack4">
<img src="images/002m.jpg" width=200>
</div>
And a very simple Jquery function for when you hover over the image:
$(function () {
$('.stack4>img').hover(function(){
prompt('hello');
});
});
This all works fine. However, I'm trying to add additional content to the page, and so put the following HTML directly after the end of the first div:
<div id="menucontainer" class="menuContainer">
<div id="menu" class="menuContent">
<img src="images/003m.jpg" />
<img src="images/004m.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
After I add this, the jquery prompt no longer works. Why would adding anothing div break my existing javascript command like that?

There has to be a script error in the page that is causing a failure. Or there is a very slight chance that your new html in some way introduces an invisible element that covers your stack4 image. If you can provide a link somebody could debug it for you.

It breaks because the selector no longer matches any elements (because the class selector .stack4 does no longer match any element).
<div id="menucontainer" class="menuContainer">
<div id="menu" class="menuContent">
<img src="images/003m.jpg" />
<img src="images/004m.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
$(function () {
$('.stack4>img').hover(function(){
prompt('hello');
});
});
If you look at your javascript, it will:
match any child image of an element with class name stack4
Add a hover listener to each image
Display a prompt on hover.
IF you look at your updated DOM structure, class stack4 no longer exists. To make it work again, you have to replace this selector with your new equivalent, which would be the div with id=menu and class=menuContent.
Now, depending on your needs, you can target either #menu>img or .menuContent>img. If you go with the first one, the javascript fragment will only work for a single menu, with the id of menu. However, if you choose the second approach, any content with the class menuContent will have this functionality. So I'd go with:
$(function () {
$('.menuContent>img').hover(function(){
prompt('hello');
});
});

Wrap link <a> around <div>

Is it possible to wrap an <a> tag around <div>s like so:
<a href=etc etc>
<div class="layout">
<div class="title">
Video Type
<div class="description">Video description</div>
</div>
</div>
</a>
Eclipse is telling me the div's are in the wrong place?
If this is not allowed. How can I make the entire 'layout' class become a link?

That structure would be valid in HTML5 since in HTML5 anchors can wrap almost any element except for other anchors and form controls. Most browsers nowadays have support for this and will parse the code in the question as valid HTML. The answer below was written in 2011, and may be useful if you're supporting legacy browsers (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*).
Older browsers without HTML5 parsers (like, say, Firefox 3.6) will still get confused over that, and possibly mess up the DOM structure.
Three options for HTML4 - use all inline elements:
<a href=etc etc>
<span class="layout">
<span class="title">
Video Type
<span class="description">Video description</span>
</span>
</span>
</a>
Then style with display: block
Use JavaScript and :hover:
<div class="layout">
<div class="title">
Video Type
<div class="description">Video description</div>
</div>
</div>
And (assuming jQuery)
$('.layout').click(function(){
// Do something
}):
And
.layout:hover {
// Hover effect
}
Or lastly use absolute positioning to place an a anchor with CSS to cover the whole of .layout
<div class="layout">
<div class="title">
Video Type
<div class="description">Video description</div>
</div>
<a class="more_link" href="somewhere">More information</a>
</div>
And CSS:
.layout {
position: relative;
}
.layout .more_link {
position: absolute;
display: block;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
text-indent: -9999px;
z-index: 1000;
}
This won't work with older versions of IE, of course.

While the <a> tag is not allowed to contain <div> element, it is allowed to contain other inline elements such as <span>.
When I encountered the problem i swapped the div tag with a <span>. Since the span tag is an inline element, you need to apply a display:block to the css of your <span> element, in order to make it behave like the <div> block element.
This should be valid xhtml and does not require any javascript.
Here's an example:
<a href="#">
<span style="display:block">
Some content. Maybe some other span elements, or images.
</span>
</a>

Another simple solution - just add an onclick event handler to the div thusly:
<div class="layout" onclick="location.href='somewhere'">
<div class="title">
Video Type
<div class="description">Video description</div>
</div>
</div>
This works great for me but there is one small gotcha. I'm not sure how search engine friendly this is. I fear that google's web crawlers might not find this link so I also tend to include a traditional A HREF link somewhere in the block like this:
<div class="layout" onclick="location.href='destination_url'">
<div class="title">
Video Type
<div class="description">Video description</div>
</div>
This is a link
</div>

Timothy's solution is correct ... instead of wrapping an anchor around a div ... you simply give layout to the anchor element with display:block and add the size and width of the anchor ...
.div_class { width: 100px; height: 100px; }
.div_class a { width: 100px; height: 100px; display: block; }
<div class='div_class'></div>

HTML provides two general elements, where div is a natural block element, and span is a natural inline element. All other elements are similarly assigned to be a natural block or inline.
Now, while both can be made by css display to be any of inline, inline-block or block, they are still treated for enclosure purposes as their natural selves, hence the warning messages. Leopards and spots sort of thing.
However, css is only meant to be for making what an element looks like (presentation), but not actually be like (functionality), so it doesn't change an element's basic nature, though that gets very fuzzy in practice. A span made block becomes a bully that kicks everything else off the line, which is very un-inline sort of behaviour.
So, to mitigate against possible conflicts between their natural and css-induced behaviours, it is better to allow:
div or any natural block tag to only ever be block or inline-block.
span or any natural inline tag to only ever be inline or inline-block.
This will also mitigate against tending to build page structures that will likely end up churning out error and warning messages.
Basically, NEVER embed a natural block tag inside a natural inline tag, at any depth.
Why there is a really a distinction is perhaps due to a simplistic idea of what HTML was going to be used for when it was first dreamed up.
Certainly, framework makers got around a lot of these what-to-embed-where problems by just using myriads of divs everywhere, and 'divitis' was born, and still alive and well in every framework. Just have to press F12 in a browser on almost any commercial web page and drill down through a dozen divs. This very page has 15 unbroken levels of divs.
It is not hard to see why just settling on divs made sense. For example, a p tag may have a bunch of links to various sites, and that is ok because inline links are allowed in a block p. However, if not wanting to have query variables visible in those urls, then buttons are required. If only one, then the p can be put inside a form, as a p cannot contain a form.
The formaction attribute on a button can be used to target a url other than the form default, but it still does not allow independent forms, each with their own set of hidden inputs. A button can use the form attribute to use it with a form that isn't an ancestor, but it can get messy to keep track of.
For multiple links to different sites to appear as part of one paragraph though, the only way is to use a div instead of the p and then wrap each button in its own form set to inline. Most frameworks have to cope with so much more complex scenarios that nested divs are the only way to go.
It meant that they really only had to manage one tag per purpose and manage it as if it was an isolated environment. So what was meant to be an occasionally-used functional grouping tag became the web's Lego block. And none of them are going to risk breaking their frameworks by converting to HTML5 semantic tags in a hurry. In the end, semantic tags only really work for fairly static content rather than rich interactive sites.

I had tried to create custom solution using jQuery, which would imitate same behavior as a tag does, for parent DIV.
DEMO:
https://jsfiddle.net/kutec/m9vxhcke/
As per W3C standard, you cannot do this:
<div class="boxes">
<a href="http://link1.com" target="_blank">
<div class="box">
<h3>Link with _blank attr</h3>
</div>
</a>
</div>
You must follow this:
<div class="boxes">
<div class="box">
<h3>
Link with _blank attr
</h3>
</div>
</div>
But by following above code, you wouldn't get the whole DIV clickable :).
Correct structure should be something like this, which also allows you to click over the DIV to redirect on the given href value:
<div class="boxes" data-href="http://link1.com" data-target="_blank">
<div class="box">
<h3>
Link with _blank attr
</h3>
</div>
</div>
Simple Solution:
$(function() {
$('.boxes a').each(function(){
var aTag = $(this).attr('href');
$(this).parent().attr('data-href',aTag);
$("[data-href]").click(function() {
window.location.href = $(this).attr("data-href");
return false;
});
})
}(jQuery));
Dynamic Solution:
(function ( $ ) {
$.fn.dataURL = function() {
// variables
var el = $(this);
var aTag = el.find('a');
var aHref;
var aTarget;
// get & set attributes
aTag.each(function() {
var aHref = $(this).attr('href');
$(this).parent().attr('data-href',this);
aTarget = $(this).attr('target');
$(this).parent().attr('data-target',aTarget);
});
// imitation - default attributes' behavior on "data-" attributes
$(el).delegate('[data-href]','click', function() {
var loc = window.location.href;
loc = $(this).attr("data-href");
aTarget = $(this).attr('data-target');
if(aTarget == "_blank"){
window.open(loc);
} else {
window.location = loc;
}
return false;
});
//removing attributes from selector itself
el.removeAttr('data-href');
el.removeAttr('data-target');
// css
$('[data-href]').css('cursor','pointer');
};
}( jQuery ));
Final call:
<script>
$('.boxes').dataURL();
</script>
Hope this would be helpful :)

You would just want to style the "a" tag as display: block;
Eclipse is appropriately telling you that your HTML is not to spec (as a div tag is not allowed in an anchor tag).
But, since you seem to want to be visually making the anchor look like a big-ol-box, then simply style it as such :)

One easy way to make the div a link/clickable is by using html javascript onclick attribute:
<div class="clickable-div" onclick="location.href='#';"><div> ... </div></div>

Show/hide a div with jquery multiple times

I am wanting to use jquery to do a show/hide of a DIV from a text link.
What makes it a little different from the examples I have found of this site so far is I need a generic way of doing it multiple times on 1 page and also able to use it sitewide on anypage.
It would be really nice if I can put the JS in seperate file that is included into the pages, so maybe it can be wrapped into a function?
Can someone help me here? For making it generic it could be where I assign a div that is shown/hidden with an id like id="toggle-hide-1" and just change the numbers in my page to make it a different show/hide area
I could just name the ID using a name that will make the function show/hide a div and to seperate it from other divs that show/hide on a page I could add a number to it.
below is partial code that will do a show/hide of a div on a link click but is not exactly what I need.
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" >
$(function() {
$(".view-code").click(function(evt) {
$(".tool_block, .view-code").toggle();
});
});
</script>
<a href="#" class="view-code" >view code</a>
hide code <br />
<div class="tool_block" style="display:none" >
this stuff is hidden until we choose to show it!
</div>

The best approach is probably going to be something using custom attributes. If you markup your anchor with an attribute that tells the jquery which div to toggle, it will be easier to write generic code to do the work.
Something like this:
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" >
$(function() {
$(".view-code").click(function(evt) {
var d = $(this).attr("toolDiv");
$(".tool_block[toolDiv=" + d + "], .view-code[toolDiv=" + d + "]").toggle();
});
});
</script>
<a href="#" class="view-code" toolDiv="1" >view code</a>
hide code <br />
<div class="tool_block" toolDiv="1" style="display:none" >
this stuff is hidden until we choose to show it!
</div>
Then give each of your anchor-div pairs a unique toolDiv value (doesn't have to be a number).

If you could wrap the whole collection in a div, it would make it pretty easy.
$(function() {
$(".view-code").click( function(e) {
$(this).siblings().andSelf().toggle();
});
});
<div>
<a href="#" class="view-code" >view code</a>
hide code <br />
<div class="tool_block" style="display:none" >
this stuff is hidden until we choose to show it!
</div>
</div>
If it doesn't handle the <br />, you could filter the siblings to only div and anchor elements.

Why not use specific classes instead? Each element you want shown/hidden can have a class called "toggler," as in:
<div class="toggler">
...
</div>
You can then toggle the visibility of ALL elements with this class at once, with:
$(".toggler").toggle();
In this scenario, it doesn't make a difference where in the document these elements reside or even what kind of elements they are.
If this functionality needs to be available globally, you can always extend jQuery itself with a custom function, as in:
$.toggleTogglers = function(toggleClass) {
$("." + toggleClass).toggle();
};
This is nice in that you have flexibility to choose a toggle custom class of your own design.