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Is it possible to change the button CSS class state from ".ripple" to "ripple:active" by using js without manually clicking the button?

Using JavaScript's click simulation does not work for CSS pseudo-class :active. After I tried some classList methods, it still doesn't work. I just wonder if there are some possible ways to realize that?
Run the snippet below and click the button to see the ripple effect. The ripple effect doesn't repeat automatically with the included setInterval code that simulates a click. It only works with the real click of the button:
const btn = document.querySelector(`button`);
btn.addEventListener(`click`, (e) => {
console.clear();
// try to manually set pseudo-class `:active` ?
btn.classList.toggle('ripple', 'ripple:active');
console.log('classList =', e.target.className);
});
setInterval(() => {
// js simulator click doesn't work for css pseudo-class `:active`
btn.click();
}, 1000);
.ripple {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
.ripple:after {
content: "";
display: block;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
pointer-events: none;
background-image: radial-gradient(circle, #000 10%, transparent 10.01%);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 50%;
transform: scale(10, 10);
opacity: 0;
transition: transform .5s, opacity 1s;
}
.ripple:active:after {
transform: scale(0, 0);
opacity: .2;
transition: 0s;
}
<button class="ripple">ripple button</button>
References
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:active
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/classList

It is impossible according to the API description so far.
The :active CSS pseudo-class represents an element (such as a button) that is being activated by the user.
When using a mouse, "activation" typically starts when the user presses down the primary mouse button.
APIs
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:active
https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors/#the-active-pseudo
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics-other.html#concept-selector-active

You can try to recreate "active" event using js and css
CSS :
.ripple {
background-color: red;
}
.ripple:active, .ripple.active {
background-color: green;
}
JS :
let btn = document.querySelector('.ripple');
btn.addEventListener('click', e => {
btn.classList.add('active');
setTimeout(() => {
btn.classList.remove('active');
}, 500);
});
setInterval(() => {
console.log('click');
btn.click();
}, 2000);

Setting up an .active class to a dynamically created link JS

I built a navbar a few weeks back and just realised I did not set an .active class on it. Now, I built the navbar and the links dynamically in JS and would now like to give whichever one is active the according CSS.
This is how I built the navbar in JS:
let womensNav = document.createElement("ul");
womensNav.classList.add("womensNav");
const el1 = document.createElement("li");
el1.innerHTML = "<a>Jeans</a>";
el1.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
document.location.href =
"https://www.martadolska.com/product-category/women/womens-jeans";
});
womensNav.appendChild(el1);
document.querySelector(".ast-woocommerce-container").appendChild(womensNav);
I have more than one link, but for this purpose I don't need to show it all. So now the goal is to build a generic function that gives the active element within the navbar the according class.
document.querySelectorAll("#womensNav li").forEach(function (ele) {
ele.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
document
.querySelectorAll("#womensNav li a.active")
.forEach((ele) => ele.classList.remove("active"));
ele.parentNode.classList.toggle("active");
});
});
And this is what my CSS looks like:
.womensNav li a:hover {
color: var(--main-text-color);
text-decoration: line-through darkred solid;
}
.womensNav li a::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 2px;
bottom: 7px;
left: 0;
background-color: #b22222;
visibility: hidden;
transform: scaleX(0);
transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;
}
.womensNav li a:hover::before {
visibility: visible;
transform: scaleX(1);
}
.womensNav li a:active::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 2px;
bottom: 10px;
left: 0;
background-color: #b22222;
}
// up until this point everything works
.active {
text-decoration: line-through darkred solid;
}
I am guessing there is something missing/not completely right in the second snippet of the JS code since nothing is happening when my link is active. I get the animation that I would like to get, but then it disappears once the user is redirected to that specific link, so you wouldn't know which sub-page you are on.

this is wrong
ele.parentNode.classList.toggle("active");
"ele" is the <li>, you are adding the "active" class to the <ul> via the parentNode, might be better to use the "e" event from the click and use e.target and then try and set the active class on the <a> or use childNode/children to get at your <a>

How to make an element reset its position after mouseout event in javascript

trying to make a button like this: https://gyazo.com/9afbd559c15bb707a2d1b24ac790cf7a. The problem with the code right now is that it works as it is supposed to on the first time; but after that, instead of going from left to right as intented, it goes from right to left to right.
HTML
<div class="btn-slide block relative mx-auto" style="overflow: hidden; width: 12rem;">
<span class="z-10">View Pricing</span>
<span class="slide-bg block absolute transition" style="background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.1); z-index: -1; top: 0; left:-10rem; width: 10rem; height: 3rem;"></span>
</div>
Javascript
const btns = document.querySelectorAll(".btn-slide");
const slide = document.getElementsByClassName('slide-bg');
btns.forEach(function(btn) {
btn.addEventListener('mouseout', function () {
slide[0].style.transform = 'translateX(230%)';
slide[0].style.transform = 'none';
})
btn.addEventListener('mouseover', function() {
slide[0].style.transform = 'translateX(80%)';
}, true)
})

Unless you have to compute a value in JavaScript (like the height of an element).
Use CSS classes as modifiers (is-hidden, is-folded, is-collapsed, ...).
Using JavaScript, only add/remove/toggle the class
yourElement.addEventListener(
"mouseenter",
function (event)
{
yourElement.classList.remove("is-collapsed");
}
);
yourElement.addEventListener(
"mouseleave",
function (event)
{
yourElement.classList.add("is-collapsed");
}
);
is-collapsed is only an exemple, name it according to your class naming standard.

You're probably going to need a bit more code than what you're showing, as you have two mutually exclusive CSS things you want to do: transition that background across the "button" on mouseenter/mouseout, which is animated, and then reset the background to its start position, which should absolutely not be animated. So you need to not just toggle the background, you also need to toggle whether or not to animation those changes.
function setupAnimation(container) {
const fg = container.querySelector('.label');
const bg = container.querySelector('.slide-bg');
const stop = evt => evt.stopPropagation();
// step one: make label text inert. This is critical.
fg.addEventListener('mouseenter', stop);
fg.addEventListener('mouseout', stop);
// mouse enter: start the slide in animation
container.addEventListener('mouseenter', evt => {
bg.classList.add('animate');
bg.classList.add('slide-in');
});
// mouse out: start the slide-out animation
container.addEventListener('mouseout', evt => {
bg.classList.remove('slide-in');
bg.classList.add('slide-out');
});
// when the slide-out transition is done,
// reset the CSS with animations _turned off_
bg.addEventListener('transitionend', evt => {
if (bg.classList.contains('slide-out')) {
bg.classList.remove('animate');
bg.classList.remove('slide-out');
}
});
}
setupAnimation(document.querySelector('.slide'));
.slide {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
width: 12rem;
height: 1.25rem;
cursor: pointer;
border: 1px solid black;
text-align: center;
}
.slide span {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 1;
}
.slide-bg {
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.1);
transform: translate(-100%, 0);
transition: none;
z-index: 0;
}
.slide-bg.animate {
transition: transform 0.5s ease-in-out;
}
.slide-bg.slide-in {
transform: translate(0%, 0);
}
.slide-bg.slide-out {
transform: translate(100%, 0);
}
<div class="slide">
<span class="label">View Pricing</span>
<span class="slide-bg"></span>
</div>
And thanks to browsers being finicky with rapid succession mouseenter/mouseout events, depending on how fast you move the cursor this may not even be enough: you might very well still need a "step" tracker so that your JS knows which part of your total animation is currently active, and not trigger the mouseout code if, by the time the slide-in transition ends, the cursor is in fact (still) over the top container (or, again).

I advice you use the .on event listener
$('').on("mouseentre","elem",function(){$('').toggleclass('.classname')})
$('').on("mouseleave","elem",function(){$('').toggleclass('.classname')})
Then you can toggle css classes to your element in the function
toggle class adds the css of a class to your jquery selection, you can do it multiple times and have keyframes for animation in the css class
Keyframes are great way to implement animation and are supported on every browers

Forcing mobile devices to activate :hover CSS properties on first touch and activate link on second touch

: )
So, I'm trying to solve a hover effect issue. I have tooltips on some of my links. Code looks like this:
<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis">
<h6 class="has-tip">Space Shuttle
<p class="tip">The space shuttle was invented by Santa Claus</p>
</h6>
</a>
And the CSS is a bit more involved:
.tip {
display: block;
position: absolute;
bottom: 100%;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
pointer-events: none;
padding: 20px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
color: #fff;
opacity: 0;
background: rgba(255,255,255,.8);
color: coal;
font-family: 'Ubuntu Light';
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: normal;
text-align: left;
text-shadow: none;
border-radius: .2em;
transform: translateY(10px);
transition: all .25s ease-out;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.28);
}
.tip::before {
content: " ";
display: block;
position: absolute;
bottom: -20px;
left: 0;
height: 20px;
width: 100%;
}
.tip::after { /* the lil triangle */
content: " ";
position: absolute;
bottom: -10px;
left: 50%;
height: 0;
width: 0;
margin-left: -13px;
border-left: solid transparent 10px;
border-right: solid transparent 10px;
border-top: solid rgba(255,255,255,.8) 10px;
}
.has-tip:hover .tip {
opacity 1;
pointer-events auto;
transform translateY(0px);
}
Now, on desktop this works wonderfully. You hover over the tiny title and you get a pretty looking tooltip, then if you click anywhere on the title or tooltip (unless you decide to put yet another link in the paragraph which works separately and nicely) you activate the link. Yay : )
Now on mobile, the whole thing gets funky. Touching just activates the link. If you have slow internet, or iOS, you might glimpse the tooltip just as the next page loads.
I would like the following behavior:
User taps on tiny title (h6) which has class (has-tip)
If this is the first tap, the tooltip shows, and nothing else happens. 3)
If the tooltip is already showing when they tap (as in a subsequent
tap) then the link is activate and the new page loads.
Any ideas how I might implement this? No jQuery if possible.

One way to do it is to save a reference to the last clicked has-tip link and to apply a class to it which forces the tip to show. When you click on a link and it matches the the last one clicked, you let the event pass.
EDIT: oh, I forgot to mention you might need a classList shim for old IE.
JSFiddle link.
HTML
<a href="http://jsfiddle.net/1tc52muq/5/" class="has-tip">
JSFiddle<span class="tip">Click for some fun recursion</span>
</a><br />
<a href="http://google.com" class="has-tip">
Google<span class="tip">Click to look for answers</span>
</a>
JS
lastTip = null;
if(mobile) {
var withtip = document.querySelectorAll(".has-tip");
for(var i=0; i<withtip.length; ++i) {
withtip[i].addEventListener("click", function(e) {
if(lastTip != e.target) {
e.preventDefault();
if(lastTip) lastTip.classList.remove("force-tip");
lastTip = e.target;
lastTip.classList.add("force-tip");
}
});
}
}
CSS
.has-tip {
position: abolute;
}
.tip {
display: none;
position: relative;
left: 20px;
background: black;
color: white;
}
.has-tip:hover .tip, .force-tip .tip {
display: inline-block;
}

Edit: Just wanted to say that Jacques' approach is similar, but much more elegant.
On touch devices, you'll need to make a click/tap counter:
1) On first tap of any link, store the link and display the hover state.
2) On another tap, check to see if it's the same as the first, and then perform the normal tap action if it is. Otherwise, clear any existing hovers, and set the new tap target as the one to count.
3) Reset / clear any hovers if you tap on non-links.
I've made a rudimentary JSFiddle that console.logs these actions. Since we're not using jQuery, I didn't bother with adding/removing CSS classes on the elements.
Also, sorry about not writing taps instead of clicks.
var clickTarget;
var touchDevice = true;
if(touchDevice) {
var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i=0; i<links.length; i++) {
links[i].onclick = function(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
event.preventDefault(); // this is key to ignore the first tap
checkClick(event);
};
};
document.onclick = function() {
clearClicks();
};
}
var checkClick = function(event) {
if(clickTarget === event.target) {
// since we're prevent default, we need to manually trigger an action here.
console.log("Show click state and also perform normal click action.");
clearClicks();
} else {
console.log("New link clicked / Show hover");
clickTarget = event.target;
}
}
var clearClicks = function() {
console.log("Clearing clicks");
clickTarget = undefined;
};
http://jsfiddle.net/doydLt6v/1/

Toggling a slide out menu

So I'm in the process of making a slide out menu on my site. It slides out on click, but how can I set it up so on another click it will slide back in?
Pretty simple source code right now:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#menuicon").click(function() {
$("nav ul, .content").animate({left: "-15%"}, 1000);
});
});
Thanks in advance!

Check this simple Slide Out menu.
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/yeyene/TLtqe/1/
$('a').on('click',function() {
if($('#website').css('left')=='0px'){
$('#website').animate({left: '-30%'}, 1000);
}else{
$('#website').animate({left:0}, 1000);
}
});

You may be able to just use the toggle() function in place of click, but I'm not a big fan of toggle. The below solution incorporates a class as well, but this is how I'd do it:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#menuicon").click(function(e) {
var menuicon = $(e.target);
if (!menuicon.hasClass('open'){
menuicon.addClass('open');
$("nav ul, .content").animate({left: "-15%"}, 1000);
} else {
menuicon.removeClass('open');
$("nav ul, .content").animate({left: "0"}, 1000);
}
});
});
I would also incorporate a 'working' class on there to prevent double clicks, but that may be more than you need with your project.
EDIT:
Little extra tidbit that I use quite a bit, if you have complex menu options that involve a few different objects (like an anchor, with an img and a span inside, or some other elements in it) you can pair e.target with the jquery 'closest()' function to be sure you're always selecting the anchor and not one of its children.
var clicked = $(e.target).closest('a');
This is pretty helpful if you're trying to also fetch any attribute values from your clicked objects, using this you know for certain that your selection will always be the 'a' (rather than e.target returning a child img or something), and you can work from there.

Use the jquery slidetoggle instead!
E.g, $(document).ready(function() { $("#menuicon").click(function() { $("nav ul, .content").slideToggle(1000); }); }); instead of animate!

Couldn't you use something like this?
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".nav_button").click(function () {
$(".top.mini_nav").slideToggle();
});
});
I'm using this here -> DEMO
And this is the CSS I use for that button
.top.mini_nav {
display: none;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
margin-bottom: 60px;
position: relative;
}
.top.mini_nav a:hover {
background-color: #F8F8F8;
}
.nav_button {
position: relative;
width: 40px;
height: 40px;
left: 40px;
display: block;
color: white;
background-color: #2898F2;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
line-height: 39px;
cursor: pointer;
top: 20px;
border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(90deg);
-o-transform: rotate(90deg);
transform: rotate(90deg);
}
.nav_button:hover {
background-color: #D0A624;
}
You will probably want something cleaner - but this works fine so far for me.

I realized that I just needed to make a variable that would set itself to true/false depending on if it was open.
var open = false;
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#menuicon").click (function() {
if (!open){
$(".content, nav ul").animate({left: "-=15%"}, 1000);
open = true;
} else {
$(".content, nav ul").animate({left: "+=15%"}, 1000);
open = false;
}
});
});
Thanks for all the help guys!