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1
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="en">
 <head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
   <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

   <script type="text/javascript">
     $(function(){
        $('div#menu div')
        .bind('mouseover',function(event){
            popHelp(this);
            })
         .bind('mouseout',function(event){
            clearHelp();
         })
         .toggle(
            function(event){$('#menu div a').not(this).css('opacity',1);$(event.target).css('opacity',0.4)},
            function(event){$(event.target).css('opacity',1)}
            )
        $('div.item').not('#mainPage')
        .hide()
        $('#customerManagement').click(function(event){
               $('.item').hide('slow');
               $('#customerManagementCon').toggle('slow');
               return false;
           })
        $('#userManagement').click(function(){
            $('.item').hide('slow');
            $('#userManagementCon').toggle('slow');
            return false;
           })
         $('#storageManagement').click(function(){
            $('.item').hide('slow');
            $('#storageManagementCon').toggle('slow');
            return false;
           })
         $('#searchManagement').click(function(){
            $('.item').hide('slow');
            $('#searchManagementCon').toggle('slow');
            return false;
           })  
         $('#signOff').click(function(){
            $('.item').hide('slow');
            $('#signOffCon').toggle('slow');
            return false;
           })  
     }
     );

     function popHelp(ref){
        var text;
        if(ref.id=="customerManagement")
            text="click here for customer management";
        else if(ref.id=="userManagement")
            text="click here for user management";
        else if(ref.id=="storageManagement")
            text="click here for storage management";
        else if(ref.id=="searchManagement")
            text="search management";
        else if(ref.id=="signOff")
            text="click here to sign off";
        $('#helpConsole').append('<div class="help">'+text+'<div>');
      }
     function clearHelp(){
        $('#helpConsole > div').remove();
     }

   </script>
   <style type="text/css" >
       #helpConsole
       {
           background-color:Aqua;
           margin-left:500px;
           width:300px;
           height:100px;
           outline-width:medium;
       }
   </style>
 </head>
 <body>
   <div id="menu">
   <table border="2">
       <thead>
        <tr>                              
            <th colspan="5">Welcome $Employee Name</th>
         </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
           <tr>
               <td><div id="customerManagement" class="menuItem"><a>Customer Management</a></div></td>
                <td><div id="userManagement" class="menuItem"><a>User Management</a></div></td>
               <td><div id="storageManagement" class="menuItem"><a>Storage Management</a></div></td>
               <td><div id="searchManagement" class="menuItem"><a>Search Management</a></div></td>
               <td><div id="signOff" class="menuItem"><a>Sign Off</a></div></td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
   </table>
 </div>
 <div id="helpConsole"><h3>help</h3></div>
 <div id="mainPage" class="item"><h1>Storage Service</h1></div>
 <div id="customerManagementCon"  class="item">
     <h3>Customer Management</h3>
    </div>
    <div id="userManagementCon"  class="item">
     <h3>User Management</h3>
    </div>
    <div id="storageManagementCon"  class="item">
     <h3>Storage Management</h3>
    </div>
     <div id="searchManagementCon"  class="item">
     <h3>Search Mangement</h3>
    </div>
    <div id="signOffCon"  class="item">
     <h3>Sign Off</h3>
    </div>
 <div id="menuItemCon" class="item">menuItem</div>
 </body>

The toggle function in this code is not working as expected though it shows the #menu items when clicked it doesn't hide them always .

A: 

You are fading the <div> out but referencing the <a> on the toggle, you need to fade the <div> back in, like this:

This: $('#menu div a').not(this)
Needs to be: $('#menu div').not(this)

This will bring the correct faded elements back like you want. Here's an updated sample with some other tweaks to slim it down as well.

Nick Craver
thanks for that .
Bunny Rabbit