Toggle CSS Style (height) Via JavaScript on Elements without an ID or Class

Hi,

Would like to selectively toggle some elements styling via javascript, but these do not have direct ID's or classes.

Here is a real world example/scenario:

I have 6 content blocks made up of divs (no tables), 3 in a row spread over 2 rows, i.e.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
| Block 1 top left       |  |  Block 2 top center      |  | Block 3 top right       |
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  
| Block 4 bottom left |  | Block 5  bottom center |  | Block 6 bottom right |  
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Each of these boxes has some text blurb in them, but I have applied a fixed height with an overflow:hidden; so that it displays with equal height on each row.

I would like to create a solution where clicking on the text blurb will toggle the current "height:6em;" style and change it to something like "height:12em;" so that the full text can be seen and read, but this should only affect the first row (block 1, 2, 3) or just the second row (block 4, 5, 6) depending on which block text the user clicked on.

One of the issues I have is that the bottom level element is just a 'p' tag with no id or class.  Please see the attached code snippet to see the sample html code for one of the block elements.  The parent ID element is the only unique id there for each of the 6 blocks.  I guess two javascript functions are required, one which affects the first three ID's and another which affects the last 3 ID's.

Any ideas?  please let me know if you need clarification.  Thanks.


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