Question

jQuery Animate when data returned from the database

Asked by: zloy_ochen

Hi guys, Ive spent the whole day (thats 8 hours straight) trying to get a simple jQuery function to work but failed miserably!!! Im very very new to the jQ scene and I know I have a lot of catching up to do!
Could somebody get this to work for me ???

All i want is following functionality, when user clicks:
1.the box with info fades out
2. when data returned from the database the box fades in with the new data!

What happens now is while the box, fading out, i can see new set of data already loaded and thats a complete FAIL of what I intended to do. Please note since i've mentioned im very new to jQuery code and still learning I'd appreciated if someone could post actual solution rather than direction to it. Thank you in advance!

$(document).ready(function() {
 
$("ul.sc_menu a").click(function()
{
 
$('#content #mainbg #infobox #trackinfo').animate({opacity:"0"});
 
$.post('projects-agent.php', {'title': $(this).text()}, function(data)
{
$('#content #mainbg #infobox #trackinfo').html(data);
$('#content #mainbg #infobox #trackinfo').animate({opacity:"1"});
 
});
return false;
});
});

                                  
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Asked On
2009-10-22 at 05:36:23ID24834187
Tags

jquery

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ajax

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animate

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javascript

Topics

Jquery

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Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX)

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Answers

 

by: TheFootPosted on 2009-10-22 at 05:55:33ID: 25633517

You should wait until the first animation has finished before grabbing the data from the server:

$(document).ready(function() { 
			$("ul.sc_menu a").click(function(){ 
				$('#content #mainbg #infobox #trackinfo').animate({opacity:"0"}, function(){
					$.post('projects-agent.php', {'title': $(this).text()}, function(data){
						$('#content #mainbg #infobox #trackinfo').html(data);
						$('#content #mainbg #infobox #trackinfo').animate({opacity:"1"});	 
					});
				});
				return false;
			});
		});

                                              
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by: zloy_ochenPosted on 2009-10-22 at 14:29:53ID: 25639245

hi thank you very much for your reply. I've tried your code still no luck getting things to work... it fades out the text but doesnt fade in... could you pls review it for me thank you:)

 

by: zloy_ochenPosted on 2009-10-22 at 14:39:26ID: 25639341

i think i know why there's nothing fading in. the reason is $(this) value refers to a different element on the page-as oppose to the original code... I have a series of <a> tags each contains track name to be submitted to the server. how can i refer to the element clicked?

 

by: zloy_ochenPosted on 2009-10-22 at 14:42:07ID: 25639370

got it!! u r a star! cheers!

 

by: TheFootPosted on 2009-10-26 at 07:24:19ID: 25662520

Sorry for the delay - been offline for a while.  Glad you got it sorted.  Thanks for the points...

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