jQuery 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

CHAPTER 8

jQuery Effects and Animation

This chapter covers the techniques used to implement effects and animations using jQuery methods. jQuery provides methods to:

• Add effects to web pages. Effects can be customized by specifying the duration of the effect and the transition mode.
• Create and run custom animations by specifying the target CSS properties of the element and the duration of the transition from the current CSS properties to the target CSS properties.
• Manage the effects and animations queue by adding, removing, and replacing effects and animation methods to/from the queue.
• Control animation by smoothing, pausing, stopping, and skipping ...