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nivo-lightbox plugin slideIn images onclick of next or previous

I don't know how much people have used this plugin, demo but what I want is to change the default behavior of the plugin to something like animated. Currently, when you click on next or previous button, the images will be just appended without any visual animation. I just want to animate the images while appending! Can anybody suggest any good solution!! Below is the code where appending on the image takes place:
if (href.match(/\.(jpeg|jpg|gif|png)$/i) !== null) {
var img = $('<img>', { src: href });
img.one('load', function () {
var wrap = $('<div class="nivo-lightbox-image" />');
wrap.append(img); //gets appended here
content.html(wrap).removeClass('nivo-lightbox-loading');
// Vertically center images
wrap.css({
'line-height': $('.nivo-lightbox-content').height() + 'px',
'height': $('.nivo-lightbox-content').height() + 'px' // For Firefox
});
}).each(function () {
if (this.complete) $(this).load();
});
}
OK with any sort of animation

Well I just added a fadeIn after appending which seems to do some sort of animation although which is what I was accepting. Here is what I did:
wrap.append(img).fadeIn('4000');

Using a jquery slider for text instead of images?

This may be a little too specific, but I have a jquery slider that I am using <p> classes instead of images to cycle through customer quotes. Basically the problem I am running into right now is when it is static and non moving (JS code is commeneted out) they are aligned how I want them to be. As soon as the JS is un commented, they stretch out of view and you just see a white box?
Any ideas?
How I want each panel to look like:
jsfiddle

So I sort of made this my Friday project. I've changed a whole lot of your code, and added a vertical-align to the quotes and authors.
Here's the fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/qLca2fz4/49/
I added a whole lot of variables to the top of the script so you could less typing throughout.
$(document).ready(function () {
//rotation speed and timer
var speed = 5000;
var run = setInterval(rotate, speed);
var slides = $('.slide');
var container = $('#slides ul');
var elm = container.find(':first-child').prop("tagName");
var item_width = container.width();
var previous = 'prev'; //id of previous button
var next = 'next'; //id of next button
Since you used a % based width I'm setting the pixel widths of the elements in case the screen is reszed
slides.width(item_width); //set the slides to the correct pixel width
container.parent().width(item_width);
container.width(slides.length * item_width); //set the slides container to the correct total width
As you had, I'm rearranging the slides in the event the back button is pressed
container.find(elm + ':first').before(container.find(elm + ':last'));
resetSlides();
I combined the prev and next click events into a single function. It checks for the ID of the element targeted in the click event, then runs the proper previous or next functions. If you reset the setInterval after the click event your browser has trouble stopping it on hover.
//if user clicked on prev button
$('#buttons a').click(function (e) {
//slide the item
if (container.is(':animated')) {
return false;
}
if (e.target.id == previous) {
container.stop().animate({
'left': 0
}, 1500, function () {
container.find(elm + ':first').before(container.find(elm + ':last'));
resetSlides();
});
}
if (e.target.id == next) {
container.stop().animate({
'left': item_width * -2
}, 1500, function () {
container.find(elm + ':last').after(container.find(elm + ':first'));
resetSlides();
});
}
//cancel the link behavior
return false;
});
I've found mouseenter and mouseleave to be a little more reliable than hover.
//if mouse hover, pause the auto rotation, otherwise rotate it
container.parent().mouseenter(function () {
clearInterval(run);
}).mouseleave(function () {
run = setInterval(rotate, speed);
});
I broke this in to its own function because it gets called in a number of different places.
function resetSlides() {
//and adjust the container so current is in the frame
container.css({
'left': -1 * item_width
});
}
});
//a simple function to click next link
//a timer will call this function, and the rotation will begin :)
And here's your rotation timer.
function rotate() {
$('#next').click();
}

It took me a little bit, but I think I figured out a few things.
http://jsfiddle.net/qLca2fz4/28/
First off, your console was throwing a few errors: first, that rotate wasn't defined and that an arrow gif didn't exist. Arrow gif was probably something you have stored locally, but I changed the 'rotate' error by changing the strings in the code here to your actual variables.
So, from:
run = setInterval('rotate()', speed);
We get:
run = setInterval(rotate, speed);
(No () based on the examples here: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_setinterval.asp)
But I think a more important question is why your text wasn't showing up at all. It's because of the logic found here:
$('#slides ul').css({'left' : left_value});
You even say that this is setting the default placement for the code. But it isn't..."left_vaule" is the amount that you've calculated to push left during a slide. So if you inspect the element, you can see how the whole UL is basically shifted one slide's worth too far left, unable to be seen. So we get rid of 'left_value', and replace it with 0.
$('#slides ul').css({'left' : 0});
Now, there's nothing really handling how the pictures slide in, so that part's still rough, but this should be enough to start on.
Let me know if I misunderstood anything, or if you have any questions.

So, a few things:
1) I believe you are trying to get all of the lis to be side-by-side, not arranged up and down. There are a few ways to do this. I'd just make the ul have a width of 300%, and then make the lis each take up a third of that:
#slides ul {
....
width: 300%;
}
#slides li {
width: calc(100% / 3);
height:250px;
float:left;
}
2) You got this right, but JSFiddle automatically wraps all your JS inside a $(document).ready() handler, and your function, rotate needs to be outside, in the normal DOM. Just change that JSFiddle setting from 'onload' to 'no wrap - in head'
3) Grabbing the CSS value of an element doesn't always work, especially when you're dealing with animating elements. You already know the width of the li elements with your item_width variable. I'd just use that and change your code:
var left_indent = parseInt($('#slides ul').css('left')) - item_width;
$('#slides ul').animate({'left' : left_indent}, 1500, function () {
to:
$('#slides ul').stop().animate({'left' : -item_width * 2}, 1500, function () {
4) Throw in the .stop() as seen in the above line. This prevents your animations from overlapping. An alternative, and perhaps cleaner way to do this, would be to simply return false at the beginning of your 'next' and 'prev' functions if #slides ul is being animated, like so:
if ($('#slides ul').is(':animated')) return false;
And I think that's everything. Here's the JSFiddle. Cheers!
EDIT:
Oh, and you may also want to clearInterval at the beginning of the next and prev functions and then reset it in the animation callback functions:
$('#prev').click(function() {
if ($('#slides ul').is(':animated')) return false;
clearInterval(run);
$('#slides ul').stop().animate({'left' : 0}, 1500,function(){
....
run = setInterval('rotate()', speed);
});
});

Start animation on progress bar when its visible on screen

I want to create a webpage that contains several sections. In one of those sections are something like progress bars. These progress bars are 'animated' so that the user sees them loading on the screen as shown in the example.
Example here
Now this is working as it is but my problem is this:
I want the progress bars to start loading when the bars become visible on the screen.
Once the user scrolls down and gets them in the middle of the screen, the 'animation' should start. The way it is now the animation starts on page load, but the bars are not yet visible as in the following fiddle:
Fiddle
A little extra would be that each bar starts loading after the previous is finished.
I found some similar questions on stack but the answer does not suffice to my needs:
Animate progress bar on scroll & Run animation when element is visible on screen
I tried stuff like (it's not the actual code but it's what I remember of it):
var target = $("#third").offset().top;
var interval = setInterval(function() {
if ($(window).scrollTop() >= target) {
//start loading progress bar
}
}, 250);
But without any good results.
Can anyone help me on this matter?
Thanks in advance!

Here is a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rAQev/4/
I've used a comparison of scroll offset and your special section offset to detect a moment when this section becomes visible.
Animations are queued to be processed one after another using jQuery queue function, you can read about it in jQuery docs (http://api.jquery.com/queue/).
Also scroll event is unbinded when the first 'loading' happens, not to run 'loading' again and again on scroll event when section is visible.

Here is an updated fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/9ybUv/
This one allows for all the progress bars to run at the same time. If you were like me and had 5 or more it takes a long time to do one, then the next, then the next.
$(function() {
var $section = $('#third');
function loadDaBars() {
$(".meter > span").each(function() {
$(this)
.data("origWidth", $(this).width())
.width(0)
.animate({
width: $(this).data("origWidth")
}, 1200);
});
}
$(document).bind('scroll', function(ev) {
var scrollOffset = $(document).scrollTop();
var containerOffset = $section.offset().top - window.innerHeight;
if (scrollOffset > containerOffset) {
loadDaBars();
// unbind event not to load scrolsl again
$(document).unbind('scroll');
}
});
});

Let me try something
function startProgressBar() {
$(".meter > span").each(function() {
$(this)
.data("origWidth", $(this).width())
.width(0)
.animate({
width: $(this).data("origWidth")
}, 1200);
});
}
$(window).scroll(function() {
var target = $('#third');
var targetPosTop = target.position().top; // Position in page
var targetHeight = target.height(); // target's height
var $target = targetHeight + targetPosTop; // the whole target position
var $windowst = $(window).scrollTop()-($(window).height()/2); // yes divided by 2 to get middle screen view.
if (($windowst >= $targetPosTop) && ($windowst < $target)){
// start progressbar I guess
startProgressBar();
}
});
Give it a try, let me know.

Making nav bar effects using scroll AND click in jQuery

I want a nav to highlight (or something similar) once a user clicks on it AND when a user scrolls to the corresponding section.
However, on my computer when one clicks on any of the nav events after3, only nav event 3 changes. I'm guessing this is because after one clicks on 4 or 5, the scroll bar is already at the bottom of the page, so 4 and 5 never reach the top. The only div at the top is post 3, so my code highlights nav event 3 and ignores the click.
Is there any way I can fix this? Ive tried if statements (only highlight nav event if it's at the top AND the scrollbar isn't at the bottom or the top isn't the last item).
Here is a more accurate fiddle, using a fix below showing what I am talking about. The fix now highlights on scroll, but if you click option 5, it will not highlight.
$('.option').children('a').click(function() {
$('.option').css('background-color', '#CCCCCC;');
$(this).css('background-color', 'red');
var postId = $($(this).attr('href'));
var postLocation = postId.offset().top;
$(window).scrollTop(postLocation);
});
$(window).scroll(function() {
var scrollBar = $(this).scrollTop();
var allPosts = [];
var post = $('.content').offset();
var lastPost = allPosts.legnth-1
var windowHeight = $(window).height();
var bottomScroll = windowHeight-scrollBar;
$(".content").each(function(){
allPosts.push($(this).attr('id'));
});
i = 0;
for(i in allPosts){
var currentPost = "#"+allPosts[i];
var postPosition = $(currentPost).offset().top;
if (scrollBar >= postPosition){
$('.option').css('background-color', '#CCCCCC');
$('#nav'+allPosts[i]).css('background-color', 'red');
};
};
});

I think you've overdone your scroll() handler, to keep it simple you just needs to check if the scrollbar/scrollTop reaches the '.contents' offset top value but should not be greater than its offset().top plus its height().
$(window).scroll(function () {
var scrollBar = $(this).scrollTop();
$(".content").each(function (index) {
var elTop = $(this).offset().top;
var elHeight = $(this).height();
if (scrollBar >= elTop - 5 && scrollBar < elTop + elHeight) {
/* $(this) '.content' is the active on the vewport,
get its index to target the corresponding navigation '.option',
like this - $('.Nav li').eq(index)
*/
}
});
});
And you actually don't need to set $(window).scrollTop(postLocation); because of the default <a> tag anchoring on click, you can omit that one and it will work fine. However if you are looking to animate you need first to prevent this default behavior:
$('.option').children('a').click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var postId = $($(this).attr('href'));
var postLocation = postId.offset().top;
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:postLocation},'slow');
});
See the demo.

What you are trying to implement from scratch, although commendable, has already been done by the nice folks at Bootstrap. It is called a Scrollspy and all you need to do to implement it is include Bootstrap js and css (you also need jquery but you already have that) and make some minor changes to your html.
Scrollspy implementation steps.
And here is a demonstration. Notice only one line of js. :D
$('body').scrollspy({ target: '.navbar-example' });

Javascript - Setting & Controlling Scrolling Speed

Been working on implementing a scrolling news ticker into my site. Controlling the scrolling function with JS. The code I am using is below, can anyone advise me on how to set and scrolling the speed at which the ticker will scroll?
$(function() {
//cache the ticker to improve the performance of the page.
var ticker = $("#ticker");
//wrap dt:dd pairs in divs to allow us to smooth our the animations
ticker.children().filter("dt").each(function() {
var dt = $(this),
container = $("<div>");
dt.next().appendTo(container);
dt.prependTo(container);
container.appendTo(ticker);
});
//hide the scrollbar
ticker.css("overflow", "hidden");
//animator function
function animator(currentItem) {
//work out new anim duration
var distance = currentItem.height();
duration = (distance + parseInt(currentItem.css("marginTop"))) / 0.025;
//animate the first child of the ticker
currentItem.animate({ marginTop: -distance }, duration, "linear", function() {
//move current item to the bottom
currentItem.appendTo(currentItem.parent()).css("marginTop", 0);
//recurse
animator(currentItem.parent().children(":first"));
});
};
// start the news section scrolling
animator(ticker.children(":first"));
// users mouse enters the scrolling view
ticker.mouseenter(function() {
// Im stopping the animation when the mouse enters
ticker.children().stop();
});
// the mouse now leaves the view
ticker.mouseleave(function() {
// begin the animating again of the scroller
animator(ticker.children(":first"));
});
});
Thanks

Just copying and pasting JavaScript code can be dangerous stuff. Make sure you understand it before yanking it from a blog / tutorial. Also, have you tried anything yourself yet? Just reading the code should make the answer obvious:
duration = (distance + parseInt(currentItem.css("marginTop"))) / 0.025;
Changing 0.025 to something else will change the duration of the animation.