Sliding elements example

For sliding effect jQuery has following methods :

.slideDown( )

This method display the matched elements with a sliding effect.

Example :

Image is initially hidden, we can show it slowly :

$('#clickme').click(function() { $('#imageNew').slideDown('slow', function() { // Animation complete. }); });

.slideToggle( )

This method is used to display or hide the matched element with sliding effect.

.slideUp( )

This method is used to hide the element with sliding effect.

Example(for slideToggle & slideUp) :

In the below example, when you click on given button, a window opens .And if you again click on this button, it hides window. This window also contain a '[x]' button. When you click on it, it hides the window also. This window displays because the button click fires 'slideToggle' event, which slide up the window.

slideToggle.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>JQuery Collapse</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function()
{

$("#click_here").click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$("#div1").slideToggle();
});

$("#div1 a").click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$("#div1").slideUp();
});
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #666666; 
}
a{color:#993300; text-decoration:none;}
#div1 {
width:30%;
display: none;
padding:5px;
border:2px solid #EFEFEF;
background-color:#7FFFD4;
}
#click_here{
padding:5px;
border:2px solid #FFEFEF;
background-color:#FF6347;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" id="click_here" value="Click Here">
<div id="div1">
<a href="#" class="close">[x]</a>
<p>
This window displays because the button click
<br>fires slideToggle event,which slide up the window.
<br>CLICK ON [X] TO SLIDE UP/CLOSE THE WINDOW.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Output :

When we click on 'button', it displays :

If you again click button or [x] , it will displays :

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