Hide 'n Show Stopper

Hide 'n Show Stopper


I wanted to use jQuery to dynamically hide and show blocks but it is
so buggy that we had to resort to changing the display style as we
have done since the turn of the century (simply change the display
style from block to none and back again).
After some digging around it turns out if you have a blocks with the
"float" style they fail to "hide". This means you cannot hide/show
using toggle or any related effect, either. I assume it's relatively
common to have content that is laid out using floats, so this is a
show-stopper.
Using jQuery 1.3.2 on IE 8 and FF 3 (same result on both browsers).