How to write onshow event using javascript/jquery?

Question

I have an anchor tag on my page, i want an event attached to it, which will fire when the display of this element change.

How can i write this event? and catch whenever

Answer 1

The code from this link worked for me: http://viralpatel.net/blogs/jquery-trigger-custom-event-show-hide-element/

(function ($) {
  $.each(['show', 'hide'], function (i, ev) {
    var el = $.fn[ev];
    $.fn[ev] = function () {
      this.trigger(ev);
      return el.apply(this, arguments);
    };
  });
})(jQuery); 

$('#foo').on('show', function() {
      console.log('#foo is now visible');
});

$('#foo').on('hide', function() {
      console.log('#foo is hidden');
});

However the callback function gets called first and then the element is shown/hidden. So if you have some operation related to the same selector and it needs to be done after being shown or hidden, the temporary fix is to add a timeout for few milliseconds.