HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 3

Animating jQuery

In This Chapter

Hiding and showing elements with jQuery

Fading elements in and out

Adding a callback function to a transition

Element animation

Object chaining

Using selection filters

Adding and removing elements

The jQuery library simplifies a lot of JavaScript coding. One of its best features is how it adds features that would be difficult to achieve in ordinary JavaScript and DOM programming. This chapter teaches you to shake and bake your programs by identifying specific objects, moving them around, and making them appear, slide, and fade.

Playing Hide and Seek

To get it all started, take a look at hideShow.html shown in Figure 3-1.

Figure 3-1: This page ...