I am making a website, and it allows users to change view options. I use jQuery to smooth animations for font changing. It fades the whole page out and back in again with the new fonts.
The fade out animation is fine, but when it fades back in, there's no fade. It just pops up, no animation.
The problematic jQuery is in http://xsznix.my3gb.com/options.php.
The code I have so far is this:
$('#font-classic').click(function(){
$(document.body).animate({opacity: '0%'},{duration: 1000, complete: function(){
// font changing code here
$(document.body).animate({opacity: '100%'}, 1000);
}});
});
jQuery's .animate() takes values from 0 to 1.
$(document.body).animate({opacity: 0}, 1000);
$(document.body).animate({opacity: 1}, 1000);
I'm sure that .animate() must call .parseFloat() (or something) on the values you're passing, which would make your 0% into 0 (which is correct), but your 100% into 100, which would be incorrect.
Why not use jQuery's built-in functions fadeIn and fadeOut?
$('#font-classic').click(function(){
$('body').fadeOut('normal', function(){
$('body').fadeIn();
}});
});
You can use functions or something like this:
$(document.body).animate({ opacity: 1/2 }, 1000);
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Hi all im trying to create a loading animation with html and JQuery that looks like the windows phone 7 loading animation.
I have gotten this far
http://jsfiddle.net/b6L8M/5/
But the easing function does the opposite of what i want, i want it to go fast when its on the edges and then slow down when it comes to the center.
when looking at http://jqueryui.com/demos/effect/easing.html it does not seem that there is a built-in function for that, so how would i create that function?
If you split-up your animation into two parts you can ease-in to the center and ease-out of the center:
function moveDot(dotItem, delay) {
var dotItem = $(dotItem);
dotItem.delay(delay * 200).css('left', '0%').animate({left: '50%'}, 1000, 'easeOutCirc', function() {
dotItem.animate({left : '100%'}, 1000, 'easeInCirc', function () {
moveDot(dotItem[0], 0);
});
});
}
I also cached the $(dotItem) selection so it doesn't create a hiccup mid-animation while creating another selection (not a big chance of this happening but hey :) ).
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/b6L8M/13/
Sometimes, you have to use more than one animate function to do what you want.
I don't know how the windows phone 7 animation looks but I tried this according on what you said :
$(dotItem).delay(delay * 200).css('left', '0%').animate({left: '50%'}, 1000, 'easeOutQuart', function() {
$(this).animate({left: '100%'}, 1000, 'easeInQuart', function() {
moveDot(dotItem, 0);
});
});
The first one, easeOutQuart, is fast then slow down. The second is slow then accelrate.
I used the chaining system, but it makes the elements stop during some ms. You also can use a "delay" to do so without stop.
After fiddeling around in fiddler and using this post Help with custom jquery easing function i got it to work like i wanted
http://jsfiddle.net/b6L8M/24/ it's more or less identical to the WP7 loading!
How does jQuery's stop() actually work?
If you look here (http://jsfiddle.net/hWTT6/), when you hover over the main blue box it should fade to red, and when you hover off it should fade back. The problem is it will completely fade to red (and then back to blue) even if the mouse has hovered off before the first fade was complete. The problem can more clearly be seen with the slide effect. Hover over the slide "button" and the main box will slide to blue, hover off, it will slide back. But try hovering on and off and on and off, before the first animation has completed. You'll see that all four animations are carried out. I included both examples here to show it is not just a problem with one effect or something.
I thought this would be easily fixed by adding a stop before the animations, as shown commented out in the code. But, if I do this the current animation will stop and the following one will never start. Almost as though stop is blocking an animation that is occurring after the call to stop.
What am I missing here?
Thanks.
You are missing that .stop() accepts two arguments. Both boolean, indicating:
- clearQueue (first)
- jumpToEnd (second)
So by calling $('#foo').stop( true, true ).doSomeOtherStuff() you should get your desired goal.
Reference: .stop()
The problem is the CSS is getting messed up by stopping at arbitrary points.
The fadeIn(), fadeOut(), slideUp() and slideDown() move from the current state to a new one and then revert to that - not to the original CSS.
You need to fix the CSS back in to a usable state to continue with after the .stop(), or more clearly specify the animation targets.
As the others have said, you can get the CSS to the correct position, by ensuring that when you stop the animation, it jumps to the end of it, rather than leaving everything in an arbitrary state.
UPDATE:
Take a look at the code in this update of your demonstration: http://jsfiddle.net/hWTT6/5/
It might not be exactly how you want it to perform, but the trick, if you do not want the animation to run its course, is to get the animation back in to a state that it can continue from in the way in which you desire.
$(function() {
$('#fade')
.mouseenter(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().animate({ 'opacity': 0 }, 'slow', function() {
$('#fg_fade').css('height', '100%');
});
})
.mouseleave(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().animate({ 'opacity': 1, 'height': '100%' }, 'slow');
});
$('#slide_fire')
.mouseenter(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().animate({ 'height': 0 }, 'slow', function() {
$('#fg_fade').css('opacity', 1);
});
})
.mouseleave(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().animate({ 'height': '100%' }, 'slow', function() {
$('#fg_fade').css('opacity', 1);
});
});
});
You could set the stop() options to (true, true) so that you cancel all events in cue and jump to the end of the previous animation. look at the fiddle:http://jsfiddle.net/hWTT6/4/
The stop method can be called in the following difference ways:
.stop(true);
//Same as:
.stop(true, false); //Empty the animation queue only
//Or
.stop(true,true); // Empties the animation queue AND jumps to the end
//Default
.stop()
//Same as
.stop(false,false);
There may be a better way using .animate instead: Demo Here
$(function() {
$('#fade')
.mouseenter(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().css('height', '10em').animate({'opacity' : '0'}, 'slow');
})
.mouseleave(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().css('height', '10em').animate({'opacity' : '1'}, 'slow');
});
$('#slide_fire')
.mouseenter(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().css('opacity', '1').animate({'height' : '0'}, 'slow');
})
.mouseleave(function() {
$('#fg_fade').stop().css('opacity', '1').animate({'height' : '10em'}, 'slow');
});
});
This way the animation stops when you want it to and still runs the next animation.
The problem with doing .stop then slideUp/slideDown or fadeIn/fadeOut is that the animation can end prematurely and keep an incorrect height/opacity.
The problem is caused by the way fadeIn, fadeOut etc. work. You may expect them to fade between 0 and 1. However, in reality they fade between 0 and whatever the "baseline" opacity is. You can see this here:
http://jsfiddle.net/hWTT6/7/
You'll notice I set the initial opacity to .5. Now when I call fadeIn it does not fade all the way in to 1 it fades to my baseline of .5. Your problem occurs when you stop the animation prematurely, the "baseline" becomes whatever the opacity is at the time it is stopped. Now when you call fadeIn on mouseleave it tries to fade to this new baseline and finds it is already there. You can see this illustrated by going here:
http://jsfiddle.net/hWTT6/8/ (original, but with .stop)
If you place your mouse over slide and then remove it half-way through the animation, it will stop in the middle. Now place your mouse back over slide and wait for the animation to complete. If you now remove your mouse, you will see that it slides back down to the place where the first animation was stopped. That is because this is the new "baseline".
The way that you would solve this is actually to replace fadeIn, fadeOut, etc. with a more explicit animation. For instance, use fadeTo to tell it to fade between 0 and 1:
http://jsfiddle.net/hWTT6/6/
Notice that since I am telling it to fade to 0 or 1 everything works. A similar thing could be done to replace slideUp and slideDown using animate.
I want to instruct my user on how to interact with a part of a website with a drawn arrow and handwritten instructions. I also want it to scale up and down repeatedly in a pulsate effect with jQuery. I know there is a pulsate plugin for jQuery, but I don't know how to mix that with scale. Thanks for your responses.
As far as I know, the jQuery pulsate is for opacity only. Instead of that, I wrote a quick "pulse" function. Just animates smaller, then larger and starts again. You need to call pulse in onload.
function pulse() {
$('#arrow').animate({
height: '200px'
}, 400, function() {
// First animate complete
$('#arrow').animate({
height: '150px'
}, 400, function() {
// Second animate complete
pulse();
});
});
}
See demo here:
http://jsbin.com/ejeni4/2/
http://jsbin.com/ejeni4/2/edit
There may be a better way, and of course you probably need to clean up the css to make it point where you want, etc.
I want to move a div down a page, and I want it to slow down as it reaches the target.
I tried using call back with recursive func but it doesn’t look smooth:
function MovePanel() {
sidePanel.animate({
"marginTop": newCurrTop
}, moveSpeed, function () {
MovePanel();
});
}
Is it possible to slow down an JQuery animation?
If not what are the alternatives?
Thanks.
The animate method takes a 3rd param called "easing"; learn about it here:
http://api.jquery.com/animate/
You might want to check this out: http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/02/quick-tip-add-easing-to-your-animations
Easing can really bring life to an
effect. Easing controls how an
animation progresses over time by
manipulating its acceleration.
Very basic question. I have a very simple web design utilizing a png with transparency, overlaying another base image. The idea here is that it cycles visibility continously, fading in quickly, displaying for a longer interval, fading out quickly, and remaining invisible for an equal longer interval, basically replicating the behavior of an animated GIF from back in the day. The png starts with display set to none.
My problem is jQuery doesn't seem to have a "pause" or "delay" event handler to help here. There are numerous plugins filling the gap, but I'd rather not include one if there's a simple way that I'm missing. That might require falling back on setInterval or setTimeOut, but I'm uncertain of the syntax to do that.
What I want schematically is something like:
--loop start--
$("#pngOverlay").fadeIn(1000);
(5000 delay) // using setTimeout or setInterval if jQuery method unavailable
$("#pngOverlay").fadeOut(1000);
(5000 delay)
--loop repeat--
The following does the behavior once, so I guess if this could be wrapped in a loop it might work, but it doesn't strike me as elegant or the right way.
setTimeout(function() {
$("#pngOverlay").fadeIn(1000);
}, 5000);
setTimeout(function() {
$("#pngOverlay").fadeOut(1000);
}, 10000);
Thanks for any suggestions. I would just use GIFs, but need the transparency for this. (In the old days, we used animated GIFs and we liked them...)
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function showimage(){
$("#pngOverlay").fadeIn(1000);
setTimeout('hideimage()',5000);
}
function hideimage(){
$("#pngOverlay").fadeOut(1000);
setTimeout('showimage()',5000);
}
$(document).ready(function() {
showimage();
});
</script>
Something like this?
setInterval(function()
{
var elm = $('#pngOverlay');
if (elm.is(':hidden'))
elm.fadeIn(1000);
else
elm.fadeOut(1000);
}, 5000);
How about using an animated PNG?
One trick I have seen is to have jQuery carry out an animation for 5000 milliseconds that has no visible effect.
$("#pngOverlay").animate({opacity:1}, 5000);
If the opacity of the item was 1 to start with then it does not have a visible effect but it does pause for 5 seconds.