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Flexslider breaks jQuery accordion [duplicate]

I have a test page to better explain my problem. I have several items on a list (they're images on the test page); when I click on one of them, a corresponding slideshow, using flexslider, sldes down.
The problem is that, on page load, the slideshow shows all slides at once, at a much smaller size than intended. But then, if I switch the focus from the window (i.e. switch between browser tabs or move to another program and come back), the slideshow is now working and the slides are the proper size. This happens in mobile devices too.
When I check with firebug, there's an element.style rule applying to ul.slides:
transform: translate3d(-89px, 0px, 0px);
Which hides one of the slides. Additionally, there's another rule for the list items inside ul.slides that gives them their initial width, which is not even the same for all sliders so I don't understand where it is coming from.
Can someone take a look and suggest a fix? I've tried overriding the element.style rule but so far unsuccessfully.

I think I've figured it out, in principal at least...
.flexslider{display:none;} seems throw off the re-size function of Flexslider.
You could just remove it, but that makes for some ugly loading.
To avoid said ugly loading I put together a quick, work-around- jsFiddle
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".flexslider").css('display','block').slideUp();
});
There's a still a quick glitch while loading, but hopefully it will at least steer you in the right direction.
Another method I played with a bit was to try and force the re-size function like so-
$(".client").click(function () {
$('.flexslider').resize(); // Problematic but promising
var project = this.id;
var project_id = '#' + project + '-project';
var elem = $(".flexslider:visible").length ? $(".flexslider:visible"): $(".flexslider:first");
elem.slideUp('slow', function () {
$(project_id).slideDown('slow');
});
});
This sort of solved the mini-picture issue, but was spotty at best.

How to disable parallax wagerfield on small resolution?

I use this parallax, but can't disable it on mobile?
I found some methods like this:
scene = $('#scene').parallax();
scene.parallax('disable');
But it didn't work. Can anybody help?

I would rather go in different direction. Instead of making something disable on small screens make it working only on larger devices:
if ($(window).width() > 640) { //set up breaking point
$('#scene').parallax(); // this or any other code you need
}

If you want to disable parallax straight after it's been initialized you should wrap your scene.parallax('disable'); in a setTimeout function. If you look at the source code of Parallax.js you will see that there's supportDelay: 500 value which is used as an argument in enable function. According to that your code for disabling would look like this:
var scene = $('#scene').parallax();
setTimeout(function () {
scene.parallax('disable');
}, 500);
Update:
Just found an article that explains different perspective on disabling parallax.js on small devices.

jQuery hover scale from bottom

This is certainly going to be an easy one but I can't get my head around what I am doing wrong...
I am trying to do a hover effect on a UL that affects a link within one of the UL LI's.
My current code looks like this:
$("ul.punchlines").hover(function () {
$(this).find("li a.light-grey-gradient").animate({'width' : '60%','top':'-65px'});
});
$("ul.punchlines").mouseleave(function () {
$(this).find("li a.light-grey-gradient").animate({'width' : '30%','top':'0px'});
});
This technically works as it gives the effect that the base of the element to be scaled remains in place and scales up from the bottom however it does it in two stages, I am trying to get this effect to happen all in one motion so it is a seamless scale and move.
I can do this easily with basic CSS3 transitions but as it is not supported in IE9 I am trying to use jQuery to allow for maximum browser support.
Can anyone offer a little support firstly about how I get the animation to happen in one motion (not staggered) and secondly if this is the right approach? I am new to jquery and only just getting my hands dirty with it :-)

Please see JQuery hover api:
http://api.jquery.com/hover/
also make sure that your "li" have absolute position.
$("ul.punchlines").hover(function () {
$(this).find("li a.light-grey-gradient").animate({'width' : '60%','top':'-65px'});
}, function () {
$(this).find("li a.light-grey-gradient").animate({'width' : '30%','top':'0px'});
});

jQueryui animation with inital undefined height

See the following fiddle:
[edit: updated fiddle => http://jsfiddle.net/NYZf8/5/ ]
http://jsfiddle.net/NYZf8/1/ (view in different screen sizes, so that ideally the image fits inside the %-width layouted div)
The image should start the animation from the position where it correctly appears after the animation is done.
I don't understand why the first call to setMargin() sets a negative margin even though the logged height for container div and img are the very same ones, that after the jqueryui show() call set the image where I would want it (from the start on). My guess is that somehow the image height is 0/undefined after all, even though it logs fine :?
js:
console.log('img: ' + $('img').height());
console.log('div: ' + $('div').height());
$('img').show('blind', 1500, setMargin);
function setMargin() {
var marginTop =
( $('img').closest('div').height() - $('img').height() ) / 2;
console.log('marginTop: ' + marginTop);
$('img').css('marginTop', marginTop + 'px');
}
setMargin();

Interesting problem...after playing around with your code for a while (latest update), I saw that the blind animation was not actually firing in my browser (I'm testing on Chrome, and maybe it was firing but I wasn't seeing it as the image was never hidden in the first place), so I tried moving it inside the binded load function:
$('img').bind('load', function() {
...
$(this).show('blind', 500);
});
Now that it was animating, it seemed to 'snap' or 'jump' after the animation was complete, and also seemed to appear with an incorrect margin. This smacks of jQuery not being able to correctly calculate the dimensions of something that hadn't been displayed on the screen yet. On top of that, blind seems to need more explicit dimensions to operate correctly. So therein lies the problem: how to calculate elements' rendered dimensions before they've actually appeared on the screen?
One way to do this is to fade in the element whose dimensions you're trying to calculate very slightly - not enough to see yet - do some calculations, then hide it again and prep it for the appearance animation. You can achieve this with jQuery using the fadeTo function:
$('img').bind('load', function() {
$(this).fadeTo(0, 0.01, function() {
// do calculations...
}
}
You would need to work out dimensions, apply them with the css() function, blind the image in and then reset the image styles back to their original states, all thanks to a blind animation that needs these dimensions explicitly. I would also recommend using classes in the css to help you manage things a little better. Here's a detailed working example: jsfiddle working example
Not the most elegant way of doing things, but it's a start. There are a lot more easier ways to achieve seemingly better results, and I guess I just want to know why you're looking to do image blinds and explicit alignment this way? It's just a lot more challenging achieving it with the code you used...anyways, 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.