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Menu items - onclick FadeInDown and FadeOutUp

I have a menu composed of three options.
Clicking on one causes a container div to "FadeInDown".
Then, its contents "FadeIn".
Clicking on another menu item or anywhere else on the page causes the
contents to "FadeOut" then container div to "FadeOutUp".
Here is the fiddle that I have been testing jsfiddle
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.container').each(function() {
animationHover(this,'.fadeInDown');
});
});
I'm not very familiar with jQuery and have been trying to use animate-css to get me along. Thanks for any help and tips in advance and welcome coding criticism :)

My answer is mainly based on JQuery and its animate function (http://api.jquery.com/animate/) . Here is the fiddle :
http://jsfiddle.net/awmat/7/
I use JavaScript objects like fadeInDown to animate the container.
var fadeInDown = {
opacity:1,
top: "50px"
};
And i use the complete callback function of animate to make the content appear after the container.
To manage several div (one for each menu item), I use id as selectors, but since the "click and display" function remains the same, I used a "builder" : (this uses a closure, so if you're not familiar with JavaScript, you may have to read several times to understand what is going on)
var menuClickCallbackBuilder = function(menuItem){
var container = $('#container' + menuItem);
var content = container.find('.content');
var showContent = function(){
content.animate({opacity:1},{duration:1000});
};
return function() {
var activeContainer = $('.active');
var hideContainer = function(){
activeContainer.animate(fadeOutUp,1000);
};
activeContainer.find('.content').animate({opacity:0},{duration: 1000, complete : hideContainer});
activeContainer.removeClass("active");
if(activeContainer[0] != container[0])
{
var timeout = activeContainer[0] ? 2000 : 0 ;
setTimeout(function(){
container.animate(fadeInDown,{duration : 1000, complete :showContent});
},timeout);
container.addClass("active");
}
}
};
This way, when you add the add the click callbacks, you can just do :
$(document).ready(function(){
// note that menuClickCallbackBuilder(1) returns a function
// again if you're not familiar with JS, you may have to re-read menuClickCallbackBuilder
$('#menuLink1').on('click', menuClickCallbackBuilder(1));
$('#menuLink2').on('click', menuClickCallbackBuilder(2));
$('#menuLink3').on('click', menuClickCallbackBuilder(3));
});
Some improvements you can bring to this :
Factor the durations into a variable (e.g animationDurationInSeconds) so that if you want to change the speed of the animation, you only have 1 thing to change. (#Huangism: and right after you did that, make animation faster so that it gets more dynamic)
(From #Huangism) : stop it from going crazy when people cicks on the menu 10 times really fast
Actually, I think you don't need 3 different containers, you could do it with just one container (though I don't know if it would be considered an improvement)
There is probably a way to use CSS classes instead of fadeInDown and fadeOutUp JS objects. That would be cleaner, I think you should keep styles in CSS as much as you can.
There is no need for different IDs for menu items, you could do the exact same thing with a loop.
Whatever your imagination wants to add

Trigger event on animation complete (no control over animation)

I've a scenario that requires me to detect animation stop of a periodically animated element and trigger a function. I've no control over the element's animation. The animation can be dynamic so I can't use clever setTimeout.
Long Story
The simplified form of the problem is that I'm using a third party jQuery sliding banners plugin that uses some obfuscated JavaScript to slide banners in and out. I'm in need of figuring out a hook on slideComplete sort of event, but all I have is an element id. Take this jsfiddle as an example and imagine that the javascript has been obfuscated. I need to trigger a function when the red box reaches the extremes and stops.
I'm aware of the :animated pseudo selector but I think it will need me to constantly poll the required element. I've gone through this, this, and this, but no avail. I've checked jquery promise but I couldn't figure out to use that in this scenario. This SO question is closest to my requirements but it has no answers.
P.S. Some more information that might be helpful:
The element isn't created by JavaScript, it is present on page load.
I've control over when to apply the plugin (that makes it periodically sliding banner) on the element

Most of the slideshow plugins I have used use changing classes at the end of the animation... You could extend the "addClass" method of jQuery to allow you to capture the class change as long as the plugin you use is using that method like it should:
(function($){
$.each(["addClass","removeClass"],function(i,methodname){
var oldmethod = $.fn[methodname];
$.fn[methodname] = function(){
oldmethod.apply( this, arguments );
this.trigger(methodname+"change");
return this;
}
});
})(jQuery);
I threw together a fiddle here
Even with obfuscated code you should be able to use this method to check how they are sending in the arguments to animate (I use the "options" object when I send arguments to animate usually) and wrap their callback function in an anonymous function that triggers an event...
like this fiddle
Here is the relevant block of script:
(function($){
$.each(["animate"],function(i,methodname){
var oldmethod = $.fn[methodname];
$.fn[methodname] = function(){
var args=arguments;
that=this;
var oldcall=args[2];
args[2]=function(){
oldcall();
console.log("slideFinish");
}
oldmethod.apply( this, args );
return this;
}
});
})(jQuery);

Well since you didn't give any indication as to what kind of animation is being done, I'm going to assume that its a horizontal/vertical translation, although I think this could be applied to other effects as well. Because I don't know how the animation is being accomplished, a setInterval evaluation would be the only way I can guess at how to do this.
var prevPos = 0;
var isAnimating = setInterval(function(){
if($(YOUROBJECT).css('top') == prevPos){
//logic here
}
else{
prevPos = $(YOUROBJECT).css('top');
}
},500);
That will evaluate the vertical position of the object every .5 seconds, and if the current vertical position is equal to the one taken .5 seconds ago, it will assume that animation has stopped and you can execute some code.
edit --
just noticed your jsfiddle had a horizontal translation, so the code for your jsfiddle is here http://jsfiddle.net/wZbNA/3/

hide() vs hide("slow")

I need to hide a div and, with this code it works fine:
var idObj = $(this).attr('key');
var valH = $(this).attr('hideval');
var valS = $(this).attr('showval');
if ($('div[name='+idObj+']').attr('isdisplay') == 'no') {
$('div[name='+idObj+']').children().show("slow");
$('div[name='+idObj+']').attr('isdisplay','yes');
var divTitle = $('div[name='+idObj+']').children().first();
var divArrow = $(this).children().first();
//.attr('src',prefixImg+valH);
//divTitle.show();
//divArrow.show();
$(this).children().first().attr('src',prefixImg+valH);
} else {
var divTitle = $('div[name='+idObj+']').children().first();
var divArrow = $('div[name='+idObj+']').children().last();
//.attr('src',prefixImg+valS);
$('div[name='+idObj+']').children().hide();
$('div[name='+idObj+']').attr('isdisplay','no');
divTitle.show();
divArrow.show();
$(this).children().first().attr('src',prefixImg+valS);
}
My div is hidden and the Title and arrows to reopen the div are shown. But if I try to use hide("slow") the divTitle and divArrow don't appear when my div is closed. Same problem using hide(1000).
Is there a difference between hide with and without "slow" parameter?
thanks,
Andrea

From the official site
The matched elements will be hidden immediately, with no animation. This is roughly equivalent to calling .css('display', 'none'), except that the value of the display property is saved in jQuery's data cache so that display can later be restored to its initial value. If an element has a display value of inline, then is hidden and shown, it will once again be displayed inline.
When a duration is provided, .hide() becomes an animation method. The .hide() method animates the width, height, and opacity of the matched elements simultaneously. When these properties reach 0, the display style property is set to none to ensure that the element no longer affects the layout of the page.
So, if hide is used without delay, it hides immediately without animating - eg, poof.
If it's used with time, it becomes animated, so it disapears over time.
For your problems, it is difficult to judge without the corresponding html code.

$(element).hide() hides an element instantly, where $(element).hide('slow') will animate its disappearance (slowly).
It looks like (though I'm not sure) you want to do stuff after the animation is finished. In that case, do something like this:
var that = this; // here to preserve scope for the block below
$('div[name='+idObj+']').children().hide('slow', function() {
// This stuff happens after the hide animation is done.
$('div[name='+idObj+']').attr('isdisplay','no');
divTitle.show();
divArrow.show();
$(that).children().first().attr('src',prefixImg+valS); // <= note "that" instead of "this"
});

According to the jQuery documentation
The strings 'fast' and 'slow' can be supplied to indicate durations of
200 and 600 milliseconds, respectively.
Also duration in milliseconds can be supplied to it..

How to use jQuery jScrollPane and scrollTo plugins in the same script

I'm building my first js/jQuery site and I've run into a hiccup. I'm trying to use both jScrollpane (Kelvin Luck) and scrollTo (Ariel Flesler) plugins in one script. If I comment one out, the other works. Are they mutually exclusive? Do I need to unbind functionality out of jScrollpane to remove a 'scrollTo' call conflict or something? (I have no idea how to do that).
I'm using jScrollPane 2beta11 and scrollTo 1.4.2. Here's my stripped-down code using both:
// JavaScript Document
$(document).ready(function() {
//jScrollPane Init
$('#scrollingDiv').jScrollPane({
});
//scrollTo Refresh
$('div.scroll-pane').scrollTo( 0 );
$.scrollTo( 0 );
//Buttons
var $scrollDiv = $('#scrollingDiv');
var next = 1;
$('#but-rt').click(function(){
$scrollDiv.stop().scrollTo( 'li:eq(1)', 800 );
next = next + 1;
});
});
I'm aware that jScrollPane has it's own scrollTo functionality, but I need scrollTo's jQuery Object selectors in my particular project. I know I've got my HTML/CSS lined up fine because each function works as long as the other is commented out.
(By the way, I plan on using "next" variable to increment scrollTo button once I figure out how... not related to my problem tho.)
Any help is much appreciated. Let me know if there's anything else I need to supply. Thanks!
-Patrick

See how to use ScrollTo functionality of JscrollPane from the following url,
http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/scroll_to.html
Hope this will help you...

I too was trying to use both jScrollpane (Kelvin Luck) and scrollTo (Ariel Flesler) plugins in one script. I've come across an easy solution which doesn't even require Ariel Flesler's AWESOME Script, if you don't necessarily require animated scrolling.
I wanted to be able to scroll to a label in a list of items when the page loads.
Here's how i did it:
$(function()
//Declare the ID or ClassName of the Scroll Element
//and the ID or ClassName of the label to scroll to
MyList = $('#MyElementID OR .MyElementClassName');
MyLabel = $('#MyElementID OR .MyElementClassName');
// Initiate the Scrollpane
MyScroll = $(MyList).jScrollPane();
// Connect to the jScrollPaneAPI
jScrollPaneAPI = MyScroll.data('jsp');
// Get position co-ordinates of the Label
var MyLabelPosition = $(MyLabel).position();
// Convert position co-ordinates to an Integer
MyLabelPosition = Math.abs(MyLabelPosition.top);
// Scroll to the Label (0-x, vertical scrolling) :)
jScrollPaneAPI.scrollTo(0, MyLabelPosition-3, true);
});
There's a small bug with the exact positioning when a list gets longer,
will post a fix asap...

They are mutually exclusive because jScrollPane removes the real scrolling and replaces it with complex boxes-in-boxes being moved relative to each other via JS.
This is how I successfully mixed them -- I had a horizontal list of thumbnails; this code scrolled the thumbnails to the center:
Activated jScrollPane:
specialScrolling = $('#scrollingpart').jScrollPane();
In my serialScroll code, where I usually would call
$('#scrollingpart').trigger('goto', [pos]);
in my case, inside my
onBefore:function(e, elem, $pane, $items, pos)
I put code like this:
jScrollPaneAPI = specialScrolling.data('jsp');
//get the api to manipulate the special scrolling are
scrollpos=(Math.abs(parseInt($('.jspPane').css('left'), 10)));
//get where we are currently scrolled -- since this is a negative number,
//get the absolute value
var position = $('#scrollingpart .oneitem').eq(pos).position();
//get the relative offset location of the item we are targetting --
//note "pos" which is the index number for the items that you can access
//in serialScroll's onBefore:function
itempos=Math.abs(position.left);
//get just the x-axis location -- your layout might be different
jScrollPaneAPI.scrollBy(itempos-scrollpos-480, 0, true);
//the 480 worked for my layout; the key is to subtract the 2 values as above
Hope this helps someone out there!

This doesn't cater for all use cases (it only handles scrollToY and scrollToElement), but offers a consistent API so you can just use $( /* ... */ ).scrollTo( /* number or selector */ ) and it will work on any element, jScrollPane or native.
You could extend the method condition to cater for all the other jScrollPane methods by inferring the value passed in target though.
(function scrollPaneScrollTo(){
// Save the original scrollTo function
var $defaultScrollTo = $.fn.scrollTo;
// Replace it with a wrapper which detects whether the element
// is an instance of jScrollPane or not
$.fn.scrollTo = function $scrollToWrapper( target ) {
var $element = $( this ),
jscroll = $element.data( 'jsp' ),
args = [].slice.call( arguments, 0 ),
method = typeof target === 'number' ? 'scrollToY' : 'scrollToElement';
if ( jscroll ) {
return jscroll[ method ].call( $element, target, true );
}
else {
return $defaultScrollTo.apply( $element, args );
}
};
}();

Simple jQuery Animate Example - Scrolling from one div to another div

Here is the example I'm looking to create...
Let's assume there are two divs, each containing some other HTML/Content (other divs). I would like to have one of these divs in the view on page load, and then after some number of seconds (let's say 5), scroll the second div onto the same place as the first div, and then repeating that process indefinitely until the user leaves the page.
The page and elements in question can be found at http://paysonfirstassembly.com/. I am attempting to animate the left sidebar with a class of dynamicPanel. There will be at least three of these divs, and they will nearly match up in content length.
I appreciate everybody's help. I am a very new client-side programmer and appreciate the respect that this community has with new developers.

Working demo of the following →
Here's a simple jQuery plugin I just made that will slide up the first div and place it at the end of the list. I've commented the code below to further explain so that this can just get you started and you can adjust it to your needs and learn about jQuery:
// the plugin declaration
$.fn.rotateEach = function ( opts ) {
// cache the element set
var $this = this,
// create some default options
defaults = {
delay: 5000
},
// pass the defaults to settings with any override options
settings = $.extend(defaults, opts),
// repeated rotation function
rotator = function ( $elems ) {
// slide up first element in set
$elems.eq(0).slideUp(500, function(){
// detach first element
var $eq0 = $elems.eq(0).detach();
// append it to wrapper
$elems.parent().append($eq0);
// fade it back in
$eq0.fadeIn();
// call rotator on reselection of elements
// since first element was moved to end
setTimeout(function(){ rotator( $( $elems.selector ) ); },
settings.delay);
});
};
// initial rotator call
setTimeout(function(){ rotator( $this ); }, settings.delay);
};
// invoke plugin
$('.dynPanelContent').rotateEach();
If you want to change the delay you can just pass it in as an option:
$('.dynPanelContent').rotateEach({ delay: 7500 }); // 7.5 seconds
Note: I also moved .dynPanelOpener and .dynPanelTitle within .dynPanelContent so that they're included in the animations.
See working example →