I am loading JSON data to my page and using appendTo()
but I am trying to fade in my results, any ideas?
$(\"#posts\").fadeIn();
$(content).appe
im have a exprensive,for this:
$("dt").append(tvlst.ddhtml);
$("dd:last").fadeIn(700);
I don't know if I fully understand the issue you're having, but something like this should work:
HTML:
<div id="posts">
<span id="post1">Something here</span>
</div>
Javascript:
var counter=0;
$.get("http://www.something/dir",
function(data){
$('#posts').append('<span style="display:none" id="post' + counter + ">" + data + "</span>" ) ;
$('#post' + counter).fadeIn();
counter += 1;
});
Basically you're wrapping each piece of the content (each "post") in a span, setting that span's display to none so it doesn't show up, and then fading it in.
This should solve your problem I think.
$('#content').prepend('<p>Hello!</p>');
$('#content').children(':first').fadeOut().fadeIn();
If you are doing append instead then you have to use the :last selector instead.
I tried what you said did the trick but is not working. it worked with the following code
$("div").append("content-to-add").hide().fadeIn();
If you hide the content before you append it and chain the fadeIn method to that, you should get the effect that you're looking for.
// Create the DOM elements
$(content)
// Sets the style of the elements to "display:none"
.hide()
// Appends the hidden elements to the "posts" element
.appendTo('#posts')
// Fades the new content into view
.fadeIn();
You have to be aware that the code doesn't execute linearly. The animated stuff can't be expected to halt code execution to do the animation and then return.
commmand();
animation();
command();
This is because the animation uses set timeout and other similar magic to do its job and settimeout is non-blocking.
This is why we have callback methods on animations to run when the animation is done ( to avoid changing something which doesn't exist yet )
command(); animation( ... function(){ command(); });