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How do I apply a browser-position to my code?

Earlier today I asked a question about my webpage being very 'jumpy'.
I've posted a test version of my webpage here: http://armandbakx.nl/
And a codepen can be viewed here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/GpmQoY
$('img').on('click', show);
$('.overlay').on('click', hide);
function show(){
$('.scroll-container').eq($(this).parent().index()).addClass('show');
$('.content-container').addClass('no-scroll');
$('.overlay').addClass('opacity');
}
function hide() {
$('.scroll-container').removeClass('show');
$('.content-container').removeClass('no-scroll');
$('.overlay').removeClass('opacity');
}
The idea of the page is that you click on an image (in this case a red square), resulting in a hidden container showing, which can be scrolled through, containing more information and images about this image.
However, when you click one of the squares, and the container and overlay show, the other images (squares) move. It was suggested to me that in my show function I should try and keep track of the position my browser was in when this container opened. Then in my hide function, return the browser to that position.
Truth to be told, I am not good with JavaScript AT ALL, so I'm pretty much clueless as to how I should apply this. I'm having more issues with this webpage and I have to fix them fast, hence I'm asking again. Could anybody help me with this?

From what I can tell, your squares are moving around because of the .no-scroll class. If I remove it, everything appears to work correctly.
try this:
$('img').on('click', show);
$('.overlay').on('click', hide);
function show(){
$('.scroll-container').eq($(this).parent().index()).addClass('show');
$('.overlay').addClass('opacity');
}
function hide() {
$('.scroll-container').removeClass('show');
$('.overlay').removeClass('opacity');
}

In your show function, you can retrieve the scroll position before the Text is shown.
scrollHeight = $(document).scrollTop();
In your hide function, set the scroll position to the value you got previously.
$(document).scrollTop( scrollHeight );

strange behaviour while sliding images on carousel

I made a jsfiddle so you can reproduce the bug:
FIDDLE
I implemented a carousel to display 3 images. There's a current image (the image being displayed) and the other two remain hidden until I click one of the lateral arrows, causing the next image to slide from the side overlaying the (now previous) current image.
I've been 2 hours trying to figure out why there are certain specific 'transitions' in which the animation doesn't seem to work. For example, when clicking the left arrow to pass from the first image to the second and from the second to the third the animation works fine, but when clicking it again, the transition from 3 to 1 doesn't perform the slide animation. When moving in the opposite direction (using the right arrow) only one transition is animated. I think the problem has to do with that if in the click event handler function, but couldn't spot what's causing it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA

The underlying issue here is related to the z-order of the three images. Your slide animations are only showing up where the image being slid in is above the displayed image; the "broken" transitions are actually occurring, they're just obscured by the "higher" visible image.
You can fix this by explicitly setting the z-index of the new and current image. For example, on the right transition:
prevLandscape.zIndex(1);
currLandscape.zIndex(0);
If you do this, you'll also need to increase the z-index of the arrows so they're above the images.
Fiddle

jsfiddle
The issue is with the hide method you just simply hide it add the slide transition for the hide method.
change this line currLandscape.hide(); to currLandscape.hide("slide");

there seemed to be a problem with the order of the images also. please try this code out. The code is reuse of the previous image arrow code. Just try it out.
$('.arrowRight').on('click',function(e) {
var currLandscape = $(this).siblings(".currImg");
var nextLandscape = currLandscape.nextAll(".hiddenImg").first();
var currDesc= $(".currDesc");
var nextDesc= currDesc.nextAll(".hiddenDesc").first();
if (nextLandscape.length == 0) {
nextLandscape = currLandscape.siblings('.hiddenImg').first();
}
if (nextDesc.length == 0) {
nextDesc= currDesc.siblings('.hiddenDesc').first();
}
nextLandscape.show("slide", { direction: "right" }, 400, function() {
currLandscape.hide("slide");
});
currDesc.fadeOut().removeClass('currDesc').addClass('hiddenDesc');
nextDesc.fadeIn().removeClass('hiddenDesc').addClass('currDesc');
currLandscape.removeClass('currImg').addClass('hiddenImg');
nextLandscape.removeClass('hiddenImg').addClass('currImg');
});

jQuery hide div, remove background and change page width on click

I'm trying to hide a div on click (well i'm trying to slide it to the left), but what it will have to do is also from the main page div swap the background and also i think, swap the width of another div. I've got it swapping the background and removing the things I don't want (although they slide down rather then to the left)
This video shows what happens (and then at the end i use firebug to show you what i want to happen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tti_L_ofelg&feature=youtu.be (edit: video online now)
Here is my html for the sliding div:
The CSS:
.slidingDiv {
}
.show_hide {
display:none;
}
And the jQuery:
var defOpen = 1;
jQuery(".slidingDiv").show();
jQuery(".show_hide").show();
jQuery('.show_hide').click(function(){
if(defOpen == 1)
{
jQuery(".show_hide").show();
jQuery("#bgwrap").css("background","url(assets/stripeclear.png) fixed 0 0 repeat-y")
jQuery("#primary_right").css("width","")
jQuery(".slidingDiv").slideToggle();
defOpen = 0
} else {
jQuery(".show_hide").show();
jQuery("#bgwrap").css("background","url(assets/stripe.png) fixed 0 0 repeat-y")
jQuery(".slidingDiv").slideToggle();
defOpen = 1
}
So it's bgwrap that has the image in it that i have to swap to a clear one (to stop it being there as it's a fixed image on the left)
and primary_right seems to be the one when I remove the width goes full screen (what i'm really trying to acheive)
It also needs to be able to toggle closed and open!
Thanks for any help you can give!

question is not clear..but as far as i understood...you want to hide a left side division by which the right side division occupies full screen and vice versa..is it?????
if yes defOpen variable will not help u..use JQuery toggle function...datz the best way to do it...

I think you need to set the width to "inherit". That's essentially what you're doing when you are selecting the delete style in Firebug.
jQuery("#primary_right").css("width","inherit")

Div width expand/shrink on click

For a site I'm making for myself and a friend, I have a div container/wrapper with 2 other divs within it: one occupies the left half and has a black background and the other occupies the right with a white background. Essentially, this lets me get a split colored background. Each div holds half of a logo. Here's the page, temporarily hosted so you guys can see it.
http://djsbydesign.com/tempsite/index.htm
At any rate, I'd like to have links on the left and right hand sides of the page that, on click, cause their respective divs to expand from 50% to 100%. I have a few ideas, but am not sure entirely how to go about doing this (I'm rather new to javascript). The first would be to have the expanding div's z-index set to something higher than the non-expanding one, and then have it expand (somehow), and the other is to have the expanding div expand to 100% while the other shrinks to 0% at an equal rate.
The bottom line is, I have no idea how to go about doing this. I don't mind using mootools or jQuery, for the record.

The following seems to work:
$('#left-bg, #right-bg').click(
function(){
$(this).animate({'width': '100%'},600).siblings().animate({'width':'0'},600);
});
Albeit I'm not sure how you'd plan to bring back the the 'other' div.
JS Fiddle demo.
Edited to add a button (via jQuery) that allows both divs to be reverted to original dimensions:
$('#left-bg, #right-bg').click(
function(){
$(this).animate({'width': '100%'},600).siblings().animate({'width':'0'},600);
$('<button class="show">Show all</button>')
.appendTo('#wrapper');
});
$('.show').live('click',
function(){
$('#left-bg').animate(
{
'width': '50%'
},600);
$('#right-bg').animate(
{
'width': '50%'
},600);
$(this).remove();
});
Updated JS Fiddle.
Edited to address the question left by OP in the comments:
is there a way to have a page redirect after the animation completes?
Yep, just add the line window.location.href = "http://path.to.url.com/";
$('#left-bg, #right-bg').click(
function(){
$(this).animate({'width': '100%'},600).siblings().animate({'width':'0'},600);
$('<button class="show">Show all</button>')
.appendTo('#wrapper');
window.location.href = "http://www.google.com/" // <-- this line redirects.
});
$('.show').live('click',
function(){
$('#left-bg').animate(
{
'width': '50%'
},600);
$('#right-bg').animate(
{
'width': '50%'
},600);
$(this).remove();
});
Updated JS Fiddle.
Edited in response to bug report (in comments):
The one other bug (easy fix) is that any time you click on either of the divs, it creates a new button. So say you clicked on the left half, and it expanded and filled the page, etc., and then you clicked on it again (it being anywhere on the page now). It would attempt to add a second button.
To prevent a second button being added to the div just add an if:
$('#left-bg, #right-bg').click(
function(){
if (!$('.show').length) {
$(this).animate({'width': '100%'},600).siblings().animate({'width':'0'},600);
$('<button class="show">Show all</button>')
.appendTo('#wrapper');
window.location.href = "http://www.google.com/" // <-- this line redirects.
}
});
Which, will only append a button, or indeed animate the divs, so long as the $('.show') selector returns no matches.
However if you're also redirecting to another page by clicking the button it shouldn't be an issue anyway, since none of the jQuery on the original page will exectute/be able to access the page to which the user is redirected (unless it's a page on your own domain, and you've explicitly chosen to add the same button).

If you give absolute positions to your div's such that - 1st is positioned at top left corner and other is positioned at top right corner. And then in click event you can change the position of the other top corner of the div to be expanded.
You can use jquery to do this easily. Check jquery documentation for setting css.

Looks like you've got jQuery included, so use that! It's totes the easiest library to do simple animations with.
Here's an example click function that will slide the right background to be 100% like you said:
$('a#link').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$('#left-bg').animate({ width : '0%' }, 'slow');
$('#right-bg').animate({ width : '100%' }, 'slow');
});
Obviously to go in the other direction you'd switch the width values in the object passed to the animate functions.
If you're not familiar with the animate function, check the docs, but basically you just pass CSS rules in a key : value object to it, and it'll change the CSS values over time - animating it!
Hope this helps!

jQuery animate problems

I use the following snippet to make an element's background lightblue, then slowly fade to whiite over 30 seconds:
$("#" + post.Id).css("background-color", "lightblue")
.animate({ backgroundColor: "white" }, 30000);
Two questions.
First, instead of fading to white, is there a way to fade opacity to 100%? That way I don't have to change "white" if I choose to change the page's background color?
Second, about once out of every 10 or 15 times, the background stays lightblue and fails to fade to white. I'm using the latest versions of jQuery and the UI core. What could be going wrong?
EDIT: Bounty is for a solution to problem regarding second question.
EDIT2:
Apparently I got downvoted into oblivion because I said I rolled my own solution but didn't show it. My bad. I didn't want to be self-promoting. My code works 100% of the time and doesn't require jQuery. A demonstration and the code can be found at:
http://prettycode.org/2009/07/30/fade-background-color-in-javascript/

For your second question: in my experience this is usually because a Javascript error has occurred somewhere else on the page. Once there is one Javascript exception, the rest of the page stops running Javascript. Try installing Firebug (if you haven't already), then open up the "Console" tab and enable it. Then any javascript errors or exceptions will be printed to the console.
Another thing to try (which kinda contradicts my last statement...) is to disable all your browser plug-ins to see if you can recreate. Sometimes they interfere with scripts on the page (particularly GreaseMonkey.)
If you could provide a sample HTML snippet which reproduces this animation problem it would be a lot easier for us to help you. In the script I have pasted below, I can click it all day, as fast or slow as I like, and it never fails to animate for me.
For the first question: I know you said you'd found a workaround, but the following works for me (even on IE6) so I thought I'd post it, since it may be different from what you were thinking. (Note that setting CSS "opacity" property through jQuery.css() works on IE, whereas IE does not support the "opacity" property directly in CSS.)
<html>
<head>
<style>
body { background-color: #08f; }
#test { background-color: white; width: 100px; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
var myOpacity = 0.125;
$(function(){
$('#test').css('opacity', myOpacity);
$('a').click(function(){
myOpacity = 1.0 - myOpacity;
$('#test').animate({ opacity: myOpacity });
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click me</p>
<div id="test">Test</div>
</body></html>

Dont forget the color plugin.
See here
When the color fails to animate to blue you could try to use the callback function to log a message to the console. You can then check that the event actually fired and completed. If it does then you could potentially use two animates. The first one to animate to a halfway house color then the use the callback to animate to white (so you get two bites of the cherry, if the outer fails but completes the callback has a second go)
It would be good if you could try to recreate the issue or give a url of the issue itself.
e.g
$("#" + post.Id).css("background-color", "lightblue")
.animate({ backgroundColor: "#C0D9D9" }, 15000, function(){
$(this).animate({ backgroundColor: "#ffffff" }, 15000)
});

You could always use something like this, avoiding the JQuery animate method entirely.
setTimeout(function() { UpdateBackgroundColor(); }, 10);
UpdateBackgroundColor() {
// Get the element.
// Check it's current background color.
// Move it one step closer to desired goal.
if (!done) {
setTimeout(UpdateBackgroundColor, 10);
}
}
Also, you may be able to remove the "white" coding by reading the background color from the appropriate item (which may involve walking up the tree).

It is possible to have jQuery change the Opacity CSS property of an item (as mentioned in another answer), but there's two reasons why that wouldn't work for your scenario. Firstly, making something "100% opaque" is fully visible. If the item didn't have any other modifications to its opacity, the default opacity is 100%, and there would be no change, so I'm guessing you meant fading to 0% opacity, which would be disappearing. This would get rid of the light blue background, but also the text on top of it, which I don't think was your intent.
A potentially easy fix for your situation is to change the color word "white" to "transparent" in your original code listing. The color plugin may not recognize that color word (haven't checked documentation on that yet), but setting the background color to "transparent" will let whatever color behind it (page background, if nothing else) shine through, and will self-update if you change your page background.

I'll answer your first question.
You can animate opacity like this:
.animate({opacity: 1.0}, 3000)
I think you can try using fadeOut/fadeIn too..

What about:
$("#" + post.Id).fadeIn( "slow" );

You could possibly have two divs that occupy the same space (using position: absolute; and position: relative; setting the z-index on one higher to make sure one is above and the other is below. the top one would have a transparent background and the one below would have a background color. then just fadeout the one below.

As for the second question:
If you think the default animation classes from JQuery are not properly working you could try Bernie's Better Animation Class. I have some good experiences with that library.

Animate only works for numbers. See the jquery docs. You can do opacity but you can't do background color. You can use the color plug in. Background-color uses strings like 'red', 'blue', '#493054' etc... which are not numbers.