jquery-effects

Prototype's Effect.Parallel equivalent in jQuery

I am trying to convert a Prototype slide-show plugin to jQuery. The animation function is fairly simple an intuitive: fade-out visible slide, fade-in next slide, both animations start and stop at the same time. Here is the Prototype code which I have yet to fully understand: fadeInOut: function (a, b) { new Effect.Parallel( ...

What are the Options for jQuery Animated Effects?

A lot of the jQuery (and jQuery UI) functionality allows for animations to occur when showing/hiding elements. One of the irksome things about their otherwise-thorough web site is their lack of definitions of the animation keywords you can use. I'm aware of slide, fadeIn, and fadeOut. I know I've used others in the past as well. Is there...

Styling jQuery Scale Effect

I have a quick question regarding the scale effect... I have a crude animation I am trying to accomplish. I have a quick fadeIn and then list elements scaling and fading out on the screen: jQuery("#page_content").fadeOut(2000, function() { jQuery("#intro_animation").slideDown(2500, function () { var delay_duration = 10; ...

How many milliseconds do "slow", "normal", and "fast" represent in jQuery?

jQuery allows use of the string values "slow", "normal", and "fast" in animations (e.g.: $('#example').fadeOut('slow');). How many milliseconds do each of these values represent? ...

Append and Slide together jQuery

I have this append method which I made to add more input boxes until there is 10 of them which will disable into making more. i = 0; $('#add-link').click(function() { if(i < 9) { $('.insert-links').append('<div class="new-link" name="link[]"><input type="text" /></div>'); i++; } if(i == 9) { ...

Jquery img preload not working in FireFox

Hi. I recently did a small jQuery snippet that allows me to show a loading img until the real image is loaded. The snippet seems to work in Safari, Chrome but not FireFox. FireFox only displays a loading alt and never switches to the loaded image. Here is the snippet var loading = $('<img src="/media/ajax-loader.gif" alt="loading" /...

jQuery Explode changes fonts while exploding, how do I stop this?

Go to http://hartford.uconn.edu/scholarships/ click on any name, then click on "close" button which will show you that while "exploding" the fonts change from default "Trebuchet MS/ Trebuchet" to "Times New Roman". I have tried defining body {font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet;} and defining other classes and change jQuery widget clas...

Why do images need to be surrounded in div/span elements for effects to work properly?

I don't particularly understand why an image would work in a span, but not by itself. See complete example here. JS $(document).ready( function () { $('#banner').hover( function(event){ $(this).children().hide("slow");} , function(event){ $(this).children().show("slow");} ...

Fading colour of links on mouseover mouseout with jQuery

Im trying to achieve a nice fade to color effect when you mouse over links in jQuery. So far I have: $('a').hover( function () { $(this).animate({ color: '#fff' }, 1000 ); }, function () { $(this).animate({ color: '#000' }, 1000 ); }); Which actually does work fine. However, imagine if the links are navigation, being close ...