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jQuery reload function

Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
Scrolling marquee content (with flexible length) makes a complete journey from right to left of the screen
Once it has disappeared off the screen, bring up some generic messages
In the background during generic messages, check for any new scrolling content and load it
Only when the generic messages have finished displaying, start scrolling again (if there is new content), otherwise repeat the generic messages
http://jsfiddle.net/Vbmm5/
(function($) {
$.fn.marquee = function(options) {
return this.each(function() {
var o = $.extend({}, $.fn.marquee.defaults, options),
$this = $(this),
$marqueeWrapper,
containerWidth,
animationCss,
elWidth;
o = $.extend({}, o, $this.data());
o.gap = o.duplicated ? o.gap : 0;
$this.wrapInner('<div class="js-marquee"></div>');
var $el = $this.find('.js-marquee').css({
'margin-right': o.gap,
'float':'left'
});
if(o.duplicated) {
$el.clone().appendTo($this);
}
$this.wrapInner('<div style="width:100000px" class="js-marquee-wrapper"></div>');
elWidth = $this.find('.js-marquee:first').width() + o.gap;
$marqueeWrapper = $this.find('.js-marquee-wrapper');
containerWidth = $this.width();
o.speed = ((parseInt(elWidth,10) + parseInt(containerWidth,10)) / parseInt(containerWidth,10)) * o.speed;
var animate = function() {
if(!o.duplicated) {
$marqueeWrapper.css('margin-left', o.direction == 'left' ? containerWidth : '-' + elWidth + 'px');
animationCss = { 'margin-left': o.direction == 'left' ? '-' + elWidth + 'px' : containerWidth };
}
else {
$marqueeWrapper.css('margin-left', o.direction == 'left' ? 0 : '-' + elWidth + 'px');
animationCss = { 'margin-left': o.direction == 'left' ? '-' + elWidth + 'px' : 0 };
}
$marqueeWrapper.animate(animationCss, o.speed , 'linear', function(){
getUpdates();
});
};
setTimeout(animate, o.delayBeforeStart);
});
};
})(jQuery);
$(function(){
$('#scrollerContent').marquee({
speed: 3000,
gap: 50,
delayBeforeStart: 0,
direction: 'right',
duplicated: false,
pauseOnHover: false,
});
});
function getUpdates()
{
alert("Hello"); // This is where the jQuery get function would be to update the text
alert("Show Details"); // This is where the generic details would be displayed
marquee();
}
The problem is the scrolling element requires a width, which obviously changes with every new 'load' of messages. I tried putting the getUpdates() function inside the main jQuery function, which does work almost perfectly but doesn't update the containerWidth variable, so messages longer than the original start half-way through, and shorter messages take ages to appear.
What I need is for the whole of the function to be re-run, including the re-setting of the width after the #scrollerText paragraph has been changed.
How do I do this?

If you had used console.log() instead of alert() you would have had the console open and seen
Uncaught ReferenceError: marquee is not defined
In getUpdates() you're calling a function marquee(); that does not exist. The script terminates there.
Go back a few steps (undoing what you've removed) and where the code triggers the animation, add the code to update the text before that, or if you're getting data you need to wrap that bit of code.
So, if you were getting data from the server, theurl.php would return text new text and nothing else. Move the code that triggers the animation to go again within the $.get callback function.
http://jsfiddle.net/Vbmm5/4/
$marqueeWrapper.animate(animationCss, o.speed , 'linear', function(){
// clear the text to prevent it from hanging at the end of the
// marquee while the script gets new data from the server
$this.find('#scrollerText').text('');
// get new text
$.get('theurl.php', function(response){
$this.find('#scrollerText').text(response);
// update the width
elWidth = $this.find('.js-marquee:first').width();
//fire event
$this.trigger('finished');
//animate again
if(o.pauseOnCycle) {
setTimeout(animate, o.delayBeforeStart);
}
else {
animate();
}
});
});
(the URL and post data in the example on jsfiddle is jsfiddle's way of returning html)
I've used $this.find('#scrollerText').text(response); even though there should be only one id and $('#scrollerText').text(response); would be fine. If you were to have multiple marquees you would target each marquee's text using $this.find, so if you want more than one use classes instead $this.find('.scrollerText').text(response);

JS: jQuery plugin is not working with newest jQuery version

I just found this tutorial on making an image cross fade transition with jquery.
The demo page works perfectly (jquery 1.2.3 used).
But when I apply the code to my site (jquery 10.1.0 embedded) it is not working...
When I embed the 1.2.3 version it works.
Anyone an idea whats wrong with the code?
here it comes:
// wrap as a jQuery plugin and pass jQuery in to our anoymous function
(function ($) {
$.fn.cross = function (options) {
return this.each(function (i) {
// cache the copy of jQuery(this) - the start image
var $$ = $(this);
// get the target from the backgroundImage + regexp
var target = $$.css('backgroundImage').replace(/^url|[\(\)'"]/g, '');
// nice long chain: wrap img element in span
$$.wrap('<span style="position: relative;"></span>')
// change selector to parent - i.e. newly created span
.parent()
// prepend a new image inside the span
.prepend('<img>')
// change the selector to the newly created image
.find(':first-child')
// set the image to the target
.attr('src', target);
// the CSS styling of the start image needs to be handled
// differently for different browsers
if ($.browser.msie || $.browser.mozilla) {
$$.css({
'position' : 'absolute',
'left' : 0,
'background' : '',
'top' : this.offsetTop
});
} else if ($.browser.opera && $.browser.version < 9.5) {
// Browser sniffing is bad - however opera < 9.5 has a render bug
// so this is required to get around it we can't apply the 'top' : 0
// separately because Mozilla strips the style set originally somehow...
$$.css({
'position' : 'absolute',
'left' : 0,
'background' : '',
'top' : "0"
});
} else { // Safari
$$.css({
'position' : 'absolute',
'left' : 0,
'background' : ''
});
}
// similar effect as single image technique, except using .animate
// which will handle the fading up from the right opacity for us
$$.hover(function () {
$$.stop().animate({
opacity: 0
}, 250);
}, function () {
$$.stop().animate({
opacity: 1
}, 250);
});
});
};
})(jQuery);
// note that this uses the .bind('load') on the window object, rather than $(document).ready()
// because .ready() fires before the images have loaded, but we need to fire *after* because
// our code relies on the dimensions of the images already in place.
$(window).bind('load', function () {
$('img.fade').cross();
});
html is that:
<img class="fade" src="original.jpg" style="background: url(hover.jpg);" />
heres the link to the tutorial (dated 2008):
http://jqueryfordesigners.com/image-cross-fade-transition/

$.browser is not supported by new version of jQuery.

Show spinner ($.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg()) on just one element?

Is there a simple way to show the spinner ($.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg()) on just one element/region ?
I'm loading this element's content via AJAX, so until it's finished I have to block it and show this spinner.

You can set the CSS position of the loading spinner to appear over a certain region. Here is a code example that both shows and hides the loading spinner over an element:
//this is an IIFE, it creates an enclosure around the code that separates it from global code
(function ($) {
//a flag so we know what state the loading spinner is in
var isShowing = false;
//this example is binding to all link elements
$('a').on('click', function () {
//check if the loading spinner is already showing
if (isShowing === false) {
//the loader is not showing, so create an overlay in the container element
var $con = $('#container').append('<div class="container-overlay"></div>');
//now position the loader over the container
$('.ui-loader').css({
position : 'absolute',
top : ($con.offset().top + ($con.height() / 2)),
left : ($con.offset().left + ($con.width() / 2))
});
//fade-in the overlay and show the loading spinner
$con.children('.container-overlay').fadeIn(500);
$.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg();
//set the flag so next time around we hide the spinner
isShowing = true;
} else {
//fade-out the overlay
$('#container').children('.container-overlay').fadeOut(500, function () {
//remove the overlay from the DOM
$(this).remove();
//hide the loader
$.mobile.hidePageLoadingMsg();
//reset the CSS of the loader element
$el.css({
position : 'fixed',
top : '50%',
left : '50%'
});
});
//set the flag so next time around we show the loading spinner
isShowing = false;
}
});​
})(jQuery);
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/CkUZf/
For the demo (link) above, I used this CSS for the overlay element:
#container .container-overlay {
display : none;
height : 100%;
background : #000;
background : rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
}​
It would also be possible to append the loader element to whatever container you want to "load" but $.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg() automatically resets the loader element so you'd have to disable that code in the jQuery Mobile include (which is why I went this the lighter CSS version above).
Update
This is probably more like what you were thinking:
$.fn.customMobileSpinner = function (options) {
var defaults = {
url : null,
fadeDuration : 500,
bgColor : 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75)',
bgColorFallback : '#000'
};
//merge the defaults and options objects
options = $.extend({}, defaults, options);
//make sure the URL is specified
if (options.url !== null) {
//only work with the first element passed-in
var $element = this.eq(0);
$element.append(
$('<div class="container-overlay" />').css({
display : 'none',
height : '100%',
width : '100%',
background : options.bgColorFallback,
background : options.bgColor
})
).children('.container-overlay').fadeIn(options.fadeDuration);
//update loader CSS
$('.ui-loader').css({
position : 'absolute',
top : ($element.offset().top + ($element.height() / 2)),
left : ($element.offset().left + ($element.width() / 2))
});
//show spinner
$.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg();
//create AJAX call
$.ajax({
url : options.url,
success : function (response) {
$element.fadeOut(options.fadeDuration, function () {
$element.html(response).fadeIn(options.fadeDuration);
$.mobile.hidePageLoadingMsg();
//reset loader CSS
$(".ui-loader").css({
position : 'fixed',
top : '50%',
left : '50%'
});
});
}
});
}
};
Then you just call this method on a jQuery object:
$('#some-container').customMobileSpinner({
url : 'some-url'
});

I'm afraid you can't. Take a look at the docs, you can just customize the message or hide the spinner, but not making it fit to a element.
If you just want to show a spinner on some element loading, use the beforeSend and complete options of the ajax method to hide/show it

javascript - position not being set properly on page load

I am creating a coverflow plugin but I have a slight problem when it first loads.
The size/styles of the images is set based on their position in the coverflow. When the page first loads the images all resize properly but they do not reposition themselves. If I them use the left and right navigation they work correctly.
I am not sure what is causing this. I thought it might be something to do with the variable that sets the starting position of the coverflow...
Here's my code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var coverflowPos = Math.round($('#coverflow img').length / 2)
$('#coverflow img').each( function(i) {
$(this).css({'opacity' : 1-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*0.4), 'z-index' : 100-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)) }).width(200-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50)).height(128-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50));
});
// If I run the testme() function here, it animates to the right place but I want it to start in this position rather than animate to it
$('#moveLeft').click( function() {
if(coverflowPos > 1) {
coverflowPos = coverflowPos-1
}
testme();
});
$('#moveRight').click( function() {
if(coverflowPos < $("#coverflow img").length -1) {
coverflowPos = coverflowPos+1
}
testme();
});
function testme() {
$('#coverflow img').each( function(i) {
$(this).animate({
opacity: 1-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*0.4),
width: 200-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50),
height: 128-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50)
}, {
duration: 500,
easing: 'easeInOutSine'
}).css({ 'z-index' : 100-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)) });
});
};
});
</script>
And here's a link to a jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/r8NqP/4/

Calling testme() at the end of the ready() function moves them into place. It does ease them in though, which looks a bit odd, could get rid of the ease in testme() by adding a doease parameter.

Check you fist each :
'z-index' : 100-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)) }).width(200-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50)).height(128-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50));
I think U mean:
'z-index' : 100-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)),
'width' : 200-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50),
'height': 128-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50)
Linke In your testme() function ?!
After that, you can also add a "Hack", by executing testme(true); at the end of script.
And add, in your testme() function , a test parameter to set the duration at 0 or simply disable animate and replace by CSS().
But, it just a Hack.

200-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50) may be less than 0 -- e.g.,
200-(5-0)* 50= 200 - 250 = -50
And the negative width ends up not being applied, leaving the width at its original 200px value. The opacity gets set properly, so all you get is a huge blank space where the image is.
var width = 200-(Math.abs(coverflowPos-i)*50);
if ( width < 0 ) width = 0;
covers the init nicely.
I haven't bothered to check why it's okay once it's animated -- my guess is, that the images were already small, so it's not as noticeable.

The problem came from "Each index", that not correctly used to compute the Width and Height of the first image.
Try this :
$('#coverflow img').each( function(i) {
i++;
$(this).css({...
And remove the Blank.gif...
Here, you find my fork fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/akarun/FQWQa/

JQuery - animate moving DOM element to new parent?

I have an image tag inside of a table cell, that I'd love to move to another table cell, and have that movement animated.
The code looks something like this...
<td id="cell1"><img src="arrow.png" alt="Arrow"/></td>
<td id="cell2"></td>
I'd like to move "arrow.png" to "cell2", and have some kind of transition effect, preferably with JQuery.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

This is actually quite difficult because you have to remove and add it to the DOM but keep its position. I think you're looking for something like this. Basically we don't animate either the arrow in #cell1 or #cell2. We just create a new one in the body-tag and animate that. That way we don't have to worry about the table cell positions because we can position relative to the document.
var $old = $('#cell1 img');
//First we copy the arrow to the new table cell and get the offset to the document
var $new = $old.clone().appendTo('#cell2');
var newOffset = $new.offset();
//Get the old position relative to document
var oldOffset = $old.offset();
//we also clone old to the document for the animation
var $temp = $old.clone().appendTo('body');
//hide new and old and move $temp to position
//also big z-index, make sure to edit this to something that works with the page
$temp
.css('position', 'absolute')
.css('left', oldOffset.left)
.css('top', oldOffset.top)
.css('zIndex', 1000);
$new.hide();
$old.hide();
//animate the $temp to the position of the new img
$temp.animate( {'top': newOffset.top, 'left':newOffset.left}, 'slow', function(){
//callback function, we remove $old and $temp and show $new
$new.show();
$old.remove();
$temp.remove();
});
I think this should point you in the right direction.

#Pim Jager's answer is pretty good, however if you have object references to the original element they would break since the the original element was replaced with a clone
I came up with what I think is a slightly cleaner solution in that it only has a single clone that show up for animation then goes away, leaving the original in the new location.
function moveAnimate(element, newParent){
//Allow passing in either a jQuery object or selector
element = $(element);
newParent= $(newParent);
var oldOffset = element.offset();
element.appendTo(newParent);
var newOffset = element.offset();
var temp = element.clone().appendTo('body');
temp.css({
'position': 'absolute',
'left': oldOffset.left,
'top': oldOffset.top,
'z-index': 1000
});
element.hide();
temp.animate({'top': newOffset.top, 'left': newOffset.left}, 'slow', function(){
element.show();
temp.remove();
});
}
To use: moveAnimate('#ElementToMove', '#newContainer')

You'll need to do this in two steps: (1) animation (2) rehoming.
The animation you can take care of with .animate(), as #Ballsacian points out. The rehoming can be accomplished with .html() - for the example above,
var arrowMarkup = $('#cell1').html(); //grab the arrow
$('#cell1').html(""); //delete it from the first cell
$('#cell2').html(arrowMarkup); //add it to the second cell
Of course, you'll have to complicate that code to integrate the animation. And this way of doing it won't cause the selection (I'm assuming you're selecting a table row?) to activate rows between the old selection and the new one, as the arrow passes by them. That'd be even more complex to achieve.

I have extended one of the other answers a little further so that now you can pass an object as a third parameter which serves as a vehicle during the animation. For example, if you want to move some <li> from one <ul> to another, your <ul> likely has a certain class that gives the <li> its styling. So, it would really be handy to animate your <li> inside a temporary vehicle <ul> that provides for the same styling as either the source or the target <ul> of the animation:
//APPENDS AN ELEMENT IN AN ANIMATED FASHION
function animateAppendTo(el, where, float){
var pos0 = el.offset();
el.appendTo(where);
var pos1 = el.offset();
el.clone().appendTo(float ? float : 'body');
float.css({
'position': 'absolute',
'left': pos0.left,
'top': pos0.top,
'zIndex': 1000
});
el.hide();
float.animate(
{'top': pos1.top,'left': pos1.left},
'slow',
function(){
el.show();
float.remove();
});
}

I was trying #Davy8's function which is quite good, but I found it quite jarring when the moved element snapped off the page at the start then back in at the end. The other page elements suddenly shifting interrupted an otherwise smooth animation, but this likely would depend on your page layout.
So this is a modified version of #Davy8's function, which should also smoothly shrink and grow space between parents.
function moveAnimate(element, newParent,
slideAnimationSpeed/*=800*/, spacerAnimationSpeed/*=600*/)
{
//Allow passing in either a jQuery object or selector
element = $(element);
newParent= $(newParent);
slideAnimationSpeed=slideAnimationSpeed||800;
spacerAnimationSpeed=spacerAnimationSpeed||600;
var oldOffset = element.offset();
var tempOutgoing=element.clone().insertAfter(element);
tempOutgoing.hide(); //Don't take up space yet so 'newOffset' can be calculated correctly
element.appendTo(newParent);
var newOffset = element.offset();
var tempMover = element.clone().appendTo('body');
tempMover.css({
'position': 'absolute',
'left': oldOffset.left,
'top': oldOffset.top,
'z-index': 1000,
'margin':0 //Necessary for animation alignment if the source element had margin
});
element.hide();
element.show(spacerAnimationSpeed).css('visibility', 'hidden'); //Smoothly grow space at the target
tempMover.animate({'top': newOffset.top, 'left': newOffset.left}, slideAnimationSpeed, function(){
element.css('visibility', 'visible');
tempMover.remove();
});
tempOutgoing.show().css('visibility', 'hidden');
tempOutgoing.hide(spacerAnimationSpeed, function(){ tempOutgoing.remove() }); //smoothly shrink space at the source
}

If the animation doesn't have to be the thing moving, this question which uses fadeIn and fadeOut gives a simple, clean answer with no cloning and still conveys the motion quite well:
Re-ordering div positions with jQuery?

For anyone still viewing this, I found the provided examples didn't fit exactly what I wanted and they didn't account for margins, so here's my version:
jQuery.fn.extend({
moveElement : function (newParent, speed, after) {
var origEl = $(this);
var moveToEl = $(newParent);
var oldOffset = origEl.offset();
var temp = origEl.clone().appendTo('body');
temp.css({
'position' : 'absolute',
'left' : parseInt(oldOffset.left) - parseInt(origEl.css('margin-left')),
'margin' : origEl.css('margin'),
'top' : oldOffset.top,
'z-index' : 1000,
'height' : moveToEl.innerHeight(),
'width' : moveToEl.innerWidth()
});
var blankEl = $('<div></div>').css({
height : moveToEl.innerHeight(),
margin : moveToEl.css('margin'),
position : 'relative',
width : moveToEl.innerWidth()
});
if (after) {
origEl.insertAfter(moveToEl);
blankEl.insertAfter(newParent);
}
else {
origEl.insertBefore(moveToEl);
blankEl.insertBefore(newParent);
}
origEl.hide();
var newOffset = blankEl.offset();
temp.animate({
'top' : blankEl.offset().top - parseInt(moveToEl.css('margin-top')),
'left' : newOffset.left - parseInt(moveToEl.css('margin-left'))
}, speed, function () {
blankEl.remove();
origEl.show();
temp.remove();
});
}
});
Move an element before another: $('.elementToFind').moveElement('.targetElement', 1000);
Move an element after another: $('.elementToFind').moveElement('.targetElement', 1000, 'after');

JQuery http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery
JQuery Effects http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate#paramsoptions
Example
$("#go1").click(function(){
$("#block1").animate( { width:"90%" }, { queue:false, duration:3000 } )
.animate( { fontSize:"24px" }, 1500 )
.animate( { borderRightWidth:"15px" }, 1500);
});