Beginning jQuery: From the Basics of jQuery to Writing your Own Plug-ins

© Jack Franklin, Russ Ferguson 2017

Jack Franklin and Russ Ferguson, Beginning jQuery, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3027-5_7

7. Animation

Jack Franklin¹  and Russ Ferguson²

(1)Aviation House, GDS, 6th Floor Aviation House, London, UK

(2)Apt 129, Ocean, New Jersey, USA

The subject of animation has been broached multiple times in this book so far, but only the very basic bits. You’ve done some fading and sliding, but nothing more—until now. jQuery has a fully-featured animation library, but it comes with its quirks: sometimes things don’t entirely happen as you might expect. This chapter will cover those “gotchas” and a lot more, including:

• jQuery’s animate() method, which allows you to animate a large number of properties.

• More jQuery convenience ...