Question

jQuery page loading effects - Fold down content area

Asked by: NextCode_Multimedia

Hi Everyone,

Thank you in advance for any help anyone can offer here. I am new to jQuery and probably trying for an effect a little outside of my skill range so any detailed assistance will be greatly appreciated.

I posted a question like the one I am about to ask here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/HTML/Q_24447008.html

What I am after (and what was almost acheived by the above thread) is a animation script which will have the content area of my page slide and fade (similtaniously) down into view once the page has loaded, then when the user clicks a link somewhere, the content area folds and fades back up to the top where the next page begins loading and repeating the process.

The thread I have linked to above almost acheives this however it requires AJAX to load the content where I would prefer to have the content of each page within each HTML file and simply have it as a display effect on each page.

I do also require assistance with make any link on the page inact the slideup effect and then go to the linked page.

I would be happy to provide further explanation if this makes no sense.

Thank you in advance for any support or assistance.

Richard.

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2009-06-01 at 18:42:16ID24455290
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Answers

 

by: anoyesPosted on 2009-06-01 at 20:30:23ID: 24523708

Hello again!  A couple little tweaks and we can get that to work.  First we need to catch link clicks in the header, cancel their default action, and implement our own:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
 $('#header a').click(function() {
   var href = $(this).attr('href');
   $('#content').animate({opacity:0, height: 0}, 'fast', function() {
     document.location = href;
   });
   return false; // Prevent 'default' action
 });
});
</script>

That should slide up and fade the content, and when it's done, go to the next page.

Next step is to set up each page to fade in and slide down the content.  The content div I believe should have display: none set on it for this.

$(document).ready(function() {
 $('#content').animate({opacity: 1, height: "100%"}, "fast");
});

I think that should do it.  Let me know if you have trouble w/ it or any other questions.

-Adam

 

by: NextCode_MultimediaPosted on 2009-06-01 at 20:59:39ID: 24523799

Hey Anoyes,

Thanks again for your reply, you seem to be the resident jQuery guru... Thank you for taking the time.

I have used the code as shown below. I rushed it out for testing so please forgive the poor markup. It all seems to work except for the first drop down of the #content div once the page loads. When a link is clicked it seems to pull the content div up correctly, just won't drop it again once loaded.

I have no doubt that I have missed something simple like last time however I can not seem to find it.

Thank you again, you are a life saver Anoyes.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Sample</title>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.1.min.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
 $('#content').animate({opacity: 1, height: "100%"}, "slow");
});
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
 $('#header a').click(function() {
   var href = $(this).attr('href');
   $('#content').animate({opacity:0, height: 0}, 'slow', function() {
     document.location = href;
   });
   return false; // Prevent 'default' action
 });
});
</script>
 
 
 
<style type="text/css">
#content {height:600px;width:400px;display:none;overflow:hidden;background-color:#009900;}
</style>
</head>
 
<body>
<div id="header"><a href="home.html">test here</a><a href="home2.html">test here</a></div>
<div id="content">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent nibh ante, ultricies nec sollicitudin nec, rutrum sed dolor. Vivamus commodo lorem eget arcu feugiat cursus lobortis eros malesuada. Proin adipiscing enim at ante placerat in malesuada libero consequat. Vivamus euismod ornare enim ut faucibus. Nam a nunc non tortor eleifend tempor in non urna. Aliquam eget augue et lacus congue imperdiet a id sem. Integer quis consectetur diam. Ut ligula magna, gravida eget pellentesque sit amet, tincidunt vitae felis. Pellentesque at sollicitudin ligula. Donec pretium lacus interdum libero adipiscing eu fermentum sem venenatis. Fusce vel arcu eget dolor feugiat condimentum.
</div>
</body>
</html>

                                              
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by: anoyesPosted on 2009-06-01 at 22:03:29ID: 24524024

Hmm OK I got this to work.  I guess setting opacity to 1 doesn't also show the div if it's hidden, so we've got to do that first.  So get rid of the display:none on the div - this code will "hide" it when the page first loads - also will downgrade well for those who may not have JS enabled in the browser.

$('#content').css({'opacity':0, 'height':0}).animate({opacity: 1, height: '600px'}, "slow");

                                              
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by: NextCode_MultimediaPosted on 2009-06-01 at 22:16:32ID: 31587662

Fantastic, works like a charm... Thank you VERY much.

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