Basic jQuery slideUp and slideDown driving me mad!

Question

my jQuery skills are pretty good normally but this is driving me mad!

It\'s a fairly simple accordian I\'ve coded up from scratch. Using jQuery 1.3.2 so there should

Answer 1

Get the height once the div has finished its animation from the callback. It's possible that you're getting the height while the div is being animated, and you're getting a transitional value.

If your animation is jumpy, try using the callbacks. Don't open a div and hide a div at the same time. Instead, hide your first div, and within the callback show your next div.

$(".someDiv").slideUp("normal", function(){
  /* This animation won't start until the first
     has finished */
  $(".someOtherDiv").slideDown();
});

Updated (From the comments):

redsquare: http://jqueryfordesigners.com/slidedown-animation-jump-revisited/