jQuery event to trigger action when a div is made visible

Question

I\'m using jQuery in my site and I would like to trigger certain actions when a certain div is made visible.

Is it possible to attach some sort of \"isvisible\" even

Answer 1

One way to do this.
Works only on visibility changes that are made by css class change, but can be extended to watch for attribute changes too.

var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
        var clone = $(mutations[0].target).clone();
        clone.removeClass();
                for(var i = 0; i < mutations.length; i++){
                    clone.addClass(mutations[i].oldValue);
        }
        $(document.body).append(clone);
        var cloneVisibility = $(clone).is(":visible");
        $(clone).remove();
        if (cloneVisibility != $(mutations[0].target).is(":visible")){
            var visibilityChangedEvent = document.createEvent('Event');
            visibilityChangedEvent.initEvent('visibilityChanged', true, true);
            mutations[0].target.dispatchEvent(visibilityChangedEvent);
        }
});

var targets = $('.ui-collapsible-content');
$.each(targets, function(i,target){
        target.addEventListener('visibilityChanged',VisbilityChanedEventHandler});
        target.addEventListener('DOMNodeRemovedFromDocument',VisbilityChanedEventHandler });
        observer.observe(target, { attributes: true, attributeFilter : ['class'], childList: false, attributeOldValue: true });
    });

function VisbilityChanedEventHandler(e){console.log('Kaboom babe'); console.log(e.target); }