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jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Using the features offered by jQuery, developers are able to create dynamic web pages. jQuery empowers you with creating simple as well as complex animations. jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide will teach you to understand animation in jQuery to produce slick and attractive interfaces that respond to your visitors' interactions. You will learn everything you need to know about creating engaging and effective web page animations using jQuery. In jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide, each chapter starts with simple concepts that enable you to build, style, and code your way into creating beautifully engaging and interactive user interfaces. With the use of wide range of examples, this book will teach you how to create a range of animations, from subtle UI effects (such as form validation animation and image resizing) to completely custom plugins (such as image slideshows and parallax background animations). The book provides various examples that gradually build up your knowledge and practical experience in using the jQuery API to create stunning animations. The book uses many examples and explains how to create animations using an easy and step-by-step approach.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – adding our animation styles to the form


We've added all of the code we needed for our forms; now, let's add some styles to our form to get the animation styles working.

  1. Add this code near the bottom of the stylesheet we created named form-animation.css between the styles for input:focus and #form1 input[type=submit]:

    #form1 input.hover {border:1px solid #FF7F7F;}#form1 input.focus {
      background:#FFD8D8;
      border:1px solid #FF7F7F;
    }

What just happened?

Now, let's preview the form with our newly added styles and take it for a spin. You'll notice that when you hover over each of the text inputs, that a red border slowly fades in and slowly fades out when we move our mouse cursor off of the text input. Clicking on the text inputs will now fade the background color to red as well. When we click away from the focused input, the red background color then slowly fades back to its original color.

Tip

These animations can also be achieved using CSS3 transitions.

The order of the CSS styles...