jQuery: Visual QuickStart Guide

5. Visual Effects and Animation

jQuery supports the full range of visual effects and animation.

These effects can give your Web pages a very professional and dynamic appearance. This chapter shows you what jQuery has to offer.

jQuery Visual Effects Overview

This chapter starts with the basics, the show( ) and hide( ) functions, which you use to show and hide page elements. Showing and hiding is a cool effect in a Web page because space is always at a premium in Web pages, and this effect can help you display items only when needed.

You can also use the show( ) and hide( ) functions to set the duration (in milliseconds) of the showing and hiding transitions. For example, you can gradually hide a page element. You can also specify a callback ...