Animating a table with jQuery - javascript

I asked a question yesterday on here and got some awsome help, but I need more help concerning more or less the same, only a bit different.
This is my old thread.
So ye, I made this and the idea is that you can customize the table to see it the way you want. for now its possible to drag the columns to change the order and its possible to order the columns on alphabet or high/low. Since I got help here, its now also possible to hide the columns.
Now I want to make the hiding process a bit more smooth, since its hard to see if something is hidden after a click if you use no animation. I use .fadeOut(200); now, but when the fading is done the column just 'jumps' to fill the gap, is it possible to animate this in some sort?
Edit: After thinking some more, I thought that I could just loop a -1px width untill the element's width is 1px and then just hide it, but for some reason that wont work, the table doesnt respond to .width(xxx); or .css('width', 'xxx');. It does change the value, but the td keeps the same width.

This is somewhat of a workaround, and there might be a better solution, but here it is anyway:
Animate the opacity to 0.0. Fadeout does the same, but it also sets display:none after completely fading out. It is the display:none that causes the adjacent column to jump and fill in the gap.
Animating will cause your hidden div to remain there. Now that it is no longer visible, animate its width to 0. This will cause the adjacent div to smoothly take over its place.
Once width is 0, set display:none
Here's a working sample I whipped up. Adjust accordingly to animate width: http://jsfiddle.net/x7BEv/8/
Here's how the magic happens:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#button').click(function(){
$('#upper').animate({opacity:0.0},'slow').animate({height:'0px'},'slow',allDone);
});
});
function allDone()
{
$('#upper').hide();
}
I'm not sure how important the allDone() method is. You could probably do away with it.

you must use jqgrid
or just for sorting you can use tablesorter which is very easy to implement

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I am trying to animate a line on scroll but I am at a loss at the moment. The final result should be similar to how the lines animate on this site, http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#range (you have to scroll a little bit to get to the lines).
There is a static gray line, and then a red line that gets height when the user scrolls down. If the user scrolls up while part, or all of the red line is visible, height will be subtracted from the red line. BUT nothing should happen to the red line until the user has scrolled 200px down the page.
I have created a fiddle for this problem and I am pretty sure I know where my problem lies, but I do not have an answer for how to fix it. I think it is because my variables currentScrollPosition and lastScrollPosition in function countUp135 are always equal to each other.
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http://jsfiddle.net/tripstar22/2HDVA/5/
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Although there is many ways to do this in JS, I'll offer an alternative css method. Instead of animating a line on scroll you can just give the illusion that the line is animating. Check out this fiddle here. As you can see The fixed red element will follow the window on scroll and fill in the transparent area between the divs, making it seem like a red line is being drawn.
You can overlay an image with a transparent line running through it instead of grey divs to minimize the code even more, or you can add js to make the animation more fancy.
There are a lot of functions in your fiddle, where I do not understand why you should need them nor what they do. An updated version of your fiddle, seems to do what you want. There was no need for all thoses methods.
This seems to be enough:
var scrollTop = getScrollTop();
if (scrollTop > 200) {
addHeightPath1(scrollTop - 150);
} else {
addHeightPath1(0);
}
I'm also wondering about the function stoppedScrolling, where an asynchronous time function is beeing started, but you try to get an result from the stoppedSrolling() function, that is never passed as a return.

jQuery Sortable List Handles on Hover

I'm creating a list with handles for sorting. I don't like the aesthetics of having 20 handles visible, so I'm trying to make the handles appear only when the mouse hovers over a list item.
This was my first attempt:
jsFiddle #1
As you can see, hovering over items in the list creates a rather jarring movement and misalignment of list items. To fix this, I've created a blank 16px image that I use to replace the handle when it's not visible. It creates a much nicer user experience than hovering, as you can see here:
jsFiddle #2
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The problem is that during sorting the 16px image often disappears, leaving things out of alignment. (I'd post an image but I don't have the reputation.) It doesn't always happen, but seems to happen more frequently when I'm sorting very quickly.
I'd love to know why this happens and how to fix it. Thanks!
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SEE DEMO
var $icon = $("<span class=\"ui-icon ui-icon-grip-dotted-vertical\" style=\"display:inline-block\" id=\"handle\" /></span>").css({
position:'absolute',
top:$(this).offset().top+5,
left:$(this).offset().left-10
});
$(this).prepend($icon);

JavaScript Slider That Auto Resizes

I'm trying to build a content slider for a client that displays their last four posts. Right now it's just plain HTML but I'm having a problem.
The slider box needs to be 180px high with a scrollbar when necessary. My slider seems to work except it makes the slide boxes all as tall as the tallest box. That leaves short posts with a ton of blank space under them.
Anyone know a fix?
http://jsfiddle.net/insitedesignlab/kQDcb/1/
I've seen that Quovolver does this, but I'd love to know how
The basic problem is #slidesContainer needs to be dynamically resized in order for it's parent to know how long to scroll for. One way to solve the problem is to change your animate call to include a callback:
$('#slideInner').animate({
'marginLeft' : slideWidth*(-currentPosition)
},null,null,
function(){
$('#slidesContainer').css('height', $(this).children(".slide:nth-child(" + parseInt((Math.ceil(-1*slideWidth*(-currentPosition) / $("#slideshow").width())) + 1) + ")").height() + "px");
}
);
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Morning all,
I'm trying to create a Mootools effect to show and hide replies to a comment on a discussion board. When the user clicks the "replies" link in the comment I want to increase the height of the comment container and then fade in the replies content. If the replies content is already visible, clicking on the link would reverse the effect.
I've got it sort of working, but I'm having trouble getting the correct height of my hidden elements (repliesH in my JS). I've tried getDimensions(), measure() and getComputedSize(), but they all give the same result: when elements are set to display:none I get a height that is too small; when I set them to display:block the height is correct. Can any kind person spot where I'm going wrong?
http://jsfiddle.net/andfinally/tVBCa/
Cheers
Fred
=======================
A BIT LATER
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Cheers
Fred
you could use Fx.Reveal, it's very useful when u encounter these kind of problems, and it simplifies A LOT your code, i.e. (I've forked your example) => http://jsfiddle.net/steweb/DH27F/
A simple way to workaround it:
replies.show();
var repliesH = replies.getDimensions().y;
replies.hide();
Just show it, get dimensions and hides it again. This runs so fast that neither is visible to the user.
Your updated Fiddle here.

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click on video setup to see for yourself
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});
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.drop_down {
width: 217px;
}
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Here's an article I wrote how with an example of doing this:
http://www.pewpewlaser.com/articles/jquery-smooth-animation
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