Expandable content div and background functionality

Question

I'm new to web design/developing, and have a few questions.

Firstly, I'm interested in finding a method of making content within a page expandable, but not sure how it would affect the image that is set as the background, as well as the rest of the content (navigation, various other divs outside of the div that I want to make expandable). I've been reading up on a couple jQuery scripts for expandable divs and have also studied the "sticky footer", but am still slightly confused on the total process and procedure. I do design for some companies around my town and use various backgrounds that I've made in Photoshop, a lot of them just being basic gradient-style backgrounds.

Anyway, just looking for some answers/suggestions from a web veteran to a beginner.

Thanks, Eric

Answer 1

I'm shooting in the dark here so be nice. Would it work for you to create DIV elements and then changing their class from hiddento showable or something like that?

And you're totally right to be looking at jQuery. At first I thought it was weird but now I love it.