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jQuery slideDown on load

I am loading a a partialView using ASP.NET MVC in my jQuery code. The partialView contains some explanation about the item that is clicked in my click function, and I would like the explanation to slide down once the object is "loaded".
I have the following code:
$('.details').click(function(){
$('#details').load($(this).data('url'), { id: $(this).data('id')}).slideDown('slow');
//the slidedown part doesn't seem to work.
});
But the .slideDown() doesn't seem to work. How can I got about this? Should I use .animate() instead?
Thanks!
EDIT
I found some questions saying I might need to .hide() it first. This seems to work, however it seems the "element" is not completely loaded when it slides down as some of the text updates after finishing the .load().
Is there some way to run the .slideDown() once the load finishes?

It's just because $().load() is not immediate. There is a third parameter that is a callback than runs when load is complete, so, you need to await to slide down (not tested, sorry).
Can you try this?
$('#details').load($(this).data('url'), { id: $(this).data('id')}, function() { $(this).slideDown('slow'); });
and tell us if it works.

Fading in a div after a delay

I'm new to javascript so I'm struggling with the basics...
I'm using this delay to bring in a div but i want to fade the div in as part of this function (not just have the box appear)
function show() {
AB = document.getElementById('div_with_text');
AB.style.display = 'inline';
}
setTimeout("show()", 3000);
Can any one help with this?
I've tried adding things like:
$(function(){
$('#div_with_text').fadeIn('slow');
});
but I don't know the language well enough to get it to work...
Any help would be much appreciated!

Is your DIV hidden in the first place? If not, that is your problem. Your are trying to open an already opened door.
Your code is also incorrect, even if you hide the DIV, this will not work. It should have been setTimeout(show, 3000);
With the JavaScript code (setTimeout) you have provided, 3 seconds after the page loads, you are trying to display the DIV. Did you notice that the DIV was already there and never 'appeared' after 3 seconds as you expected?
Example - http://jsfiddle.net/BLPTq/2/ - just click run and see.
To make it work, hide the DIV first and then call the setTimeout or the jQuery method. Example - http://jsfiddle.net/zeXyG/ - just click run and see. Check the CSS display:none;
OR, if you don't want to hide it with CSS, just call hide() before calling fadeIn()
$('#div_with_text').hide().fadeIn('slow');
Example - http://jsfiddle.net/zeXyG/1/
As per your comment below. Add delay() to the call like shown below
$('#div_with_text').hide(); // this or use css to hide the div
$('#div_with_text').delay(2000).fadeIn('slow');
2 seconds after the page loads, this will hide the div and then fade in slowly. Look at this example carefully.

The fadeIn method will only work if you load the jQuery library on your page. Without that, the method will not work since it isn't part of native Javascript.
Once you have loaded jQuery, that method will work as your syntax is correct.

Unable to show the div on body load

This is my code posted in a jsfiddle Demo.
As you can see when you click on the
Hyderabad.
Visakhapatnam.
Then a Horizontal Image slider is shown ( YOu can slide throgh the Pictures )
Now my requirement is I need to also show the Image slider on body load itself also
I have tried using body onload function to show the div , and also in Jquery ready function , and by commenting all the hide() functions in javascript , but none of them really worked .
Could anybody please tell me what is the way to do this .

I just tested it.. first I thought that you should just do this:
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
$fp_galleries.first().click();
});
but poorly this will only show the first image and not all images.
I don't know why but it looks like you should do this.
$(window).load(function() {
/* your code */
$fp_galleries.first().click();
});
Maybe because you need to wait until the images are loaded.

perhaps use document on ready to call the function: http://api.jquery.com/ready/
$(document).ready(function() {
openGallery(galleryname){
})
;

The problem is not that it is hidden, its rather that the content are only generated by som javascript when the user clicks one of your links.
You could add something like
$("li",$fp_galleries).first().click()
at the bottom of your script.
This will trigger the click event on one of the links.

jQuery slow reveal on page load

I am trying to do a slow reveal on a particular div with an id of 'contentblock' on page load. This is my first time trying to code something in jQuery and I continue to fail. The following is my latest attempt, but I'm a complete newbie to this and surprisingly google hasn't been a whole lot of help.
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(window).onload(function(){
$('#contentblock').slideDown('slow');
return false;
});
</script>
before that I also had the following instead of the window onload line above:
$(document).ready(function(){
But that didn't have any success either. Can someone help a jQuery newbie out?

First, you'll need to make sure the element is hidden (or it won't be shown, since it's already visible). You can do this in either CSS or JavaScript/jQuery:
#contentblock {
display: none;
}
Or:
$('#contentblock').hide();
If you use CSS to hide the element you need to be aware that the element will remain hidden in the event of JavaScript being disabled in the user's browser. If you use JavaScript there's the problem that the element will likely flicker as it's first shown and then hidden.
And then call:
$(window).load(function(){
$('#contentblock').slideDown('slow');
});
I've made two amendments to your jQuery, first I've changed onload to load and I've also removed the return false, since the load() method doesn't expect any value to be returned it serves no purpose herein.
For the above jQuery you can use instead:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#contentblock').slideDown('slow');
});

$(document).ready(function(){
if($('#contentblock').is(':hidden'))
{
$('#contentblock').slideDown('slow');
}
});
if you have jquery added to your project and your div is display none ... something like this should work.

jQuery function in pure javascript

I'm one of those people who never was bother to learn JavaScript and went straight for jQuery.
I'm writing simple script to hide everything till page is fully loaded - and because my jQuery is loaded after html/css/images I planning to put small script in the header.
So in jQuery it would be
$('body').css('display','none');
Pure JavaScript:
document.body.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
But than:
$(window).load(function() { $('body').css('display', 'block').fadeIn(3000); });
Has not animation? Why?
What I'm trying to do:
#1 hide everything(body) with javascipt till everything is loaded (there is no jQuery at this state as is being loaded at the end)
#2 show everthing(body) with animation of fadding (with jQuery - as is loaded at this state)
Any help much appreciated.
Pete

The equivalent to
$('body').css('display','none');
is
document.body.style.display = 'none';
$('body') selects the body element, but document.body.parentNode obviously selects the parent of body.
And shouldn't it be just
$('body').fadeIn(3000);
?
I asked because I assumed you already got the code working with only jQuery. But apparently you haven't, so again, it has to be $('body').fadeIn(3000); only, otherwise you make the element visible immediately and there is nothing to animate anymore.
See a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/fkling/Q24pC/1/
Update:
$(window).load is only triggered when the all resources are loaded. This could take longer if you have images. To hide the elements earlier, you should listen to the ready event:
$(document).ready(function() {
// still don't know why you don't want to use jQuery.
document.body.style.display = 'none';
});
or hide the elements initially with CSS
body {
display: none;
}
To make sure that users with disabled JavaScript can see the page, you'd have to add
<noscript>
<style>
body {
display: block;
}
</style>
</noscript>
in the head after you other CSS styles.
Update 2
Seems that setting the CSS property directly causes problems in some browsers. But using $('body').hide() seems to work: http://jsfiddle.net/fkling/JaLZU/

I'm not that clear on what your question really is, but if I'm on the right track you don't need the .css('display', 'block') part for the animation. Get rid of that, so it's just $('body').fadeIn(3000); and the animation should work fine.