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Learning jQuery: A Hands-on Guide to Building Rich Interactive Web Front Ends
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Learning jQuery: A Hands-on Guide to Building Rich Interactive Web Front Ends

by Ralph Steyer
April 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
13h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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9. Effects and Animations

This chapter discusses the effects and animations that jQuery offers for your web applications. Essentially, animations are based on a change of the web page or a part of the web page happening evenly or following a certain algorithm over a defined time period. This means that all the jQuery techniques for creating animations are time dependent. To just create a special effect, however, you can also use some non-time-dependent methods. The effect (for example, displaying an element) then occurs immediately when calling the method. You have already come across various effects and animations in the course of this book.

9.1. Basic Use

jQuery animations and effects are impressive (particularly for laypeople), but they belong ...

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