RESOLVED: making a paragraph animate along with rotating image in jquery

Question

Hey all,

The problem was the text failed to scroll with images.

      $(function() {
        $('#slideshow').crossSlide({
          sleep: 2,
          fade: 1
        }, [
          { src: '../images/img1.png' },
          { src: '../images/img2.png' },
          { src: '../images/img3.png' },
          { src: '../images/img4.png' }
        ])

                $(".paging").show();
                $(".paging a:first").addClass("active");
                $(".image_text p:first").addClass("active");


                //Get size of the image, how many images there are, then determin the size of the image reel.
                var imageWidth = $(".window").width();
                var imageSum = $(".image_reel img").size();
                var imageReelWidth = imageWidth * imageSum;

                //Adjust the image reel to its new size
                $(".image_reel").css({'width' : imageReelWidth});

                //Paging  and Slider Function
                rotate = function(){
                    $activep = $('.image_text p:first');


                    var triggerID = $active.attr("rel") - 1; //Get number of times to slide
                    var image_reelPosition = triggerID * imageWidth; //Determines the distance the image reel needs to slide

                    $(".paging a").removeClass('active'); //Remove all active class
                    $(".image_text p").removeClass('active'); //Remove all active class

                    $active.addClass('active'); //Add active class (the $active is declared in the rotateSwitch function)
                    $activep.addClass('active');

                    //Slider Animation
                    $(".image_reel").animate({
                        left: -image_reelPosition
                    }, 500 );

                    $(".image_text p").animate({
                        opacity: .99,
                        left: -image_reelPosition
                    }, 500 );

                }; 

                //Rotation  and Timing Event
                rotateSwitch = function(){
                    play = setInterval(function(){ //Set timer - this will repeat itself every 7 seconds
                        $active = $('.paging a.active').next(); //Move to the next paging
                        $activep = $('.image_text p').next(); //Move to the next paging
                        if ( $active.length === 0) { //If paging reaches the end...
                            $active = $('.paging a:first'); //go back to first
                        }
                        rotate(); //Trigger the paging and slider function
                    }, 7000); //Timer speed in milliseconds (7 seconds)
                };

                rotateSwitch(); //Run function on launch

                //On Hover
                $(".image_reel a").hover(function() {
                    clearInterval(play); //Stop the rotation
                }, function() {
                    rotateSwitch(); //Resume rotation timer
                }); 

                //On Click
                $(".paging a").click(function() {
                    $active = $(this); //Activate the clicked paging
                    //Reset Timer
                    clearInterval(play); //Stop the rotation
                    rotate(); //Trigger rotation immediately
                    rotateSwitch(); // Resume rotation timer
                    return false; //Prevent browser jump to link anchor
                });
      });

Answer 1

The solution was to specify how may p tags and multiple that by width of container and then specifying the container with the css declaration overflow:hidden, which hides all p tags except the current. Also, p tags had to be floated left in order to get them to behave inline:

 .window {
margin-top: 20px;
height:286px;   width: 655px;
overflow: hidden; 
position: relative;
} 
.image_text  {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;

opacity: 0; }

.image_text p { float: left; margin-left: 10em;

}