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jQuery animate on property change

I have I div or some other element which I load content into with:
$('#my_div').load('ajax.php',function(){
//Do random stuff.
}
However the height of the div will then change, causing the page to jump up and down, looking ugly.
Is there a way for it to animate the height when the new content is loaded or changed? I know one can do this with FluidMoveBehavior in C#.
How can I achieve the same effect with Javascript/jQuery?

Here's some Fiddle
When you want to create a height or width animation with jQuery you have to set a number indicating the desired size. I assume that you use height: auto in this case so you have to find a little workarround.
Get the height:
var autoHeight = $("#content").height("auto").height();
Animate to autoHeight:
$("#content").animate({height: autoHeight}, 1000);
And together:
var currentHeight = $("#content").height();
var autoHeight = $("#content").height("auto").height();
$("#content").height(currentHeight);
$("#content").animate({height: autoHeight}, 1000);
Stolen from here

What I do is the opposite. I animate the page to scroll to the top if not already BEFORE I call the load.
So that the top of any new dynamic content is always in view.
I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, but I've found it works best.

You could hide #my_div before the load(), and then slideDown() in the complete function:
$('#my_div').hide().load('ajax.php', function() {
$(this).slideDown();
});
Or, create a temporary element, hide it, append it, use its height to animate #my_div once the load is complete, and then remove it.
$('<span/>').hide().appendTo('body').load('ajax.php', function(text) {
$('#my_div').animate({ height: $(this).height() }, '800').html(text);
$(this).remove();
});

Is it possible to reveal the contents of a div from right to left

I created a fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/gifcy/bJJ5s/5/
On DOM ready I hide the image.
I could successfully reveal the image from left to right using animate function.
Can someone show how to reveal from right to left. What additional parameters need to used.

Use jquery ui show() function
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#nature').hide();
$('#animation').click(function() {
$('#nature').show('slide', {direction: 'right'},1000);
});
});
​
fiddle here http://jsfiddle.net/bJJ5s/6/

Pretty sure this will work cross browser
#nature,
#nature img {
float:right;
}​
http://jsfiddle.net/g8zDk/

Set height as auto on expanding DIV with jQuery

I am trying to set the height of a DIV to auto when I expand it, but when ever I do just '' it shrinks it down, or when I do 'auto' it does nothing. How do I get it to change the height to auto? I have content that will be all different heights and dont want to have to pass in a height parameter every time I set one of these up .This is what I have that is not working properly. The DIV will start out at a static height then needs to expand to expose all of the text in the DIV.
My jsFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/gNsrG/
This is my jQuery code:
function changeheight(_this) {
var thisText = $(_this).text() ;
if (thisText == 'more') {
$('#overviewtext').animate({
'height': ''
}, 600);
$(_this).text((thisText == 'more') ? 'less' : 'more');
}
else if (thisText == 'less') {
$('#overviewtext').animate({
'height': '150px'
}, 600);
$(_this).text((thisText == 'more') ? 'less' : 'more');
}
return false;
};

You shouldn't have to change the height ever. You should just be using JQuery's slidedown and slideup
I've made some changes to you example on jsfiddle
EDIT
I misunderstood what the question was. You want some text to show then you click more and more text shows. Then click less and less text shows. I've accomplished this but it is a bit hacky. Apparently JQuery doesn't do well with animating auto and percentages. Basically is what I did is when you click more. I stored the current height. Temporarily changed it to auto which makes it fully open. Got that height. Changed it back to closed (Hopefully the user doesn't see this). Then took that height and used it for the animate. I'm hoping there is an easier way but right now I can't find it.
My example is here jsfiddle
The only other way I can think of to accomplish this is to have an inner div that contains all the "MORE" text that you slidedown and slideup on but you would have to be able to differentiate where the cutoff was for the more text.

Improved code:
function changeheight(_this) {
$('#overviewtext').slideToggle(600);
$(_this).text($(_this).text() == 'more' ? 'less' : 'more');
return false;
};
Demo here http://jsfiddle.net/gNsrG/3/

you can change an element's css using .css(), in this case it would look like
$('#overviewtext').css('height', 'auto');
you might try adding that line after the animate call.

I had a similar problem and my solution was to use JqueryUI which animate classes on toggle when clicking in the actual text
jQuery ("#box_description_texts p").click(function() {
jQuery(this).toggleClass("box_text_expanded", 250);
});
and in the CSS
#box_description_texts p.box_text_expanded {height: auto;}

JQuery animated banner

So I previously asked a question about how to create a banner like the one shown here and I got a really good answer to start me off. I have been working on it since and I'm having a lot of problems getting the animation to slide back to it's original position.
Here is my animation: http://jsfiddle.net/43nCF/ (don't click the green block first)
Issue: After the first time you toggle a block, clicking another block will not move it to the left.
I also have some other minor issues which I would be grateful if someone helped me with.
How do I get the width and the moving of the blocks to animate simultaneously like in the banner animation I am trying to replicate?
How do I get the block to slide back to the original position instead of just kind of 'transporting' there?
I am only beginner at jQuery so any help would be amazing.Thanks.

As for the positioning problem: you need to drop the left declaration in your second function.
Regarding making the animation act simultanous: animate both the right and the width property for each element, in one call:
function() {
var position = $.data(this, 'position');
var ind = $(this).index();
//moves image back to original position
$('#container div').each(
function() {
$(this).animate({
right: "",
width: 100
});
});
});
Working example here.

I see you have a response.
In case this version is of any help to you:
http://jsfiddle.net/vCbcz/
Instead of altering the divs other than the one being affected, I wrapped them all in a #slider div and adjusted that one's left margin to push it to the left.
$('#slider').animate({
marginLeft: '-' + ind * 105 + 'px'
});
and back
$('#slider').animate({
marginLeft: 0 + 'px'
});

There is a much easier way altogether of doing this. By using jQuery's scrollTo plugin, this can be done in a mere few lines of code, without using indices, calculations, or anything of that nature.
Live Demo http://jsfiddle.net/Jaybles/WEzny/

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!