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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 – folding an element away


In this example, we'll apply the fold effect to a simple image of a piece of paper.

  1. All we need is an image; add the following code to the <body> element of the template file:

    <img src="img/paper.jpg" alt="A piece of paper">
  2. Next, add the following simple script to the bottom of the page, in the empty function as with previous examples:

    $("img").click(function() {
      $(this).effect("fold", { size: "50%" }, 1000);
    });
  3. Save this file as fold.html.

  4. This is another example that we don't need a stylesheet for. When the image is clicked, it should fold up and disappear:

In the previous screenshots, we see the image first as it starts out, then when the effect has hidden the bottom half of the image, and finally, as the top half of the image is being hidden. Notice that the target element is clipped and not resized.

What just happened?

We simply set a click handler on the <img> element, which will apply the fold effect. We specify the size option...