I’m using the jQuery toggle function for my navigation. By default the Authors toggle is visible, the Archives toggle is closed.

http://jsfiddle.net/TeDFs/4/

My problem is that when the users switches to another page the toggles reset themselves.

For example, when the user closes the Authors toggle and opens the Archive toggle and then navigates to another page the default settings are loaded.

I read that it’s possible to store the settings via cookies but I’m absolutely new to jQuery and it would be great if somebody could help me out!

HTML

<div id="authors" class="widget">
<h2 class="widget-title-visible">Authors</h2>
<div class="toggle">
    <div class="submenu">
        <ul>
            <li>Name 1</li>
            <li>Name 2</li>
            <li>Name 3</li>
            <li>Name 3</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div id="archives" class="widget">
<h2 class="widget-title">Archiv</h2>
<div class="toggle hidden">
    <div class="submenu">       
        <ul>
            <li>November 2012</li>
            <li>Oktober 2012</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>
</div>?

jQuery

    function toggleWidgets() {
    jQuery('.widget-title').addClass('plus'); 

    jQuery('.widget-title-visible').addClass('minus'); 

    jQuery('.widget-title').click(function() {
        $(this).toggleClass('plus').toggleClass('minus').next().toggle(180);
    });

    jQuery('.widget-title-visible').click(function() {
        $(this).toggleClass('minus').toggleClass('plus').next().toggle(180);
    });
} 

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    toggleWidgets();
} )?

CSS

.hidden{
    display:none;
}

.plus {
    background: url(http://moargh.de/daten/sidebar_arrows.png) 0 5px no-repeat;
    padding: 0 0 0 12px;
}
.minus {
    background: url(http://moargh.de/daten/sidebar_arrows.png) 0 -10px no-repeat;
    padding: 0 0 0 12px;
}

?