Change text (html) with .animate

Question

I am trying to animate the html part of a tag ( This Text! ) using jQuery\'s Animate function, like so:

Answer 1

The animate(..) function' signature is:

.animate( properties, options );

And it says the following about the parameter properties:

properties A map of CSS properties that the animation will move toward.

text is not a CSS property, this is why the function isn't working as you expected.

Do you want to fade the text out? Do you want to move it? I might be able to provide an alternative.

Have a look at the following fiddle.

Answer 2

For fadeOut => change text => fadeIn effect We need to animate the wrapper of texts we would like change.

Example below:

HTML

<div class="timeline-yeardata">
  <div class="anime">
    <div class="ilosc-sklepow-sticker">
      <span id="amount">1400</span><br>
      sklepów
    </div>

    <div class="txts-wrap">
      <h3 class="title">Some text</h3>
      <span class="desc">Lorem ipsum description</span>
    </div>

    <div class="year-bg" id="current-year">2018</div>
  </div>
</div>


<div class="ch-timeline-wrap">
  <div class="ch-timeline">
    <div class="line"></div>

    <div class="row no-gutters">
      <div class="col">
        <a href="#2009" data-amount="9" data-y="2009" class="el current">
          <span class="yr">2009</span>
          <span class="dot"></span>

          <span class="title">Lorem  asdf asdf asdf a</span>
          <span class="desc">Ww wae awer awe rawer aser as</span>
        </a>
      </div>
      <div class="col">
        <a href="#2010" data-amount="19" data-y="2010" class="el">
          <span class="yr">2010</span>
          <span class="dot"></span>

          <span class="title">Lorem brernern</span>
          <span class="desc">A sd asdkj aksjdkajskd jaksjd kajskd jaksjd akjsdk jaskjd akjsdkajskdj akjsd k</span>
        </a>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

JQuery JS

$(document).ready(function(){

  $('.ch-timeline .el').on('click', function(){

    $('.ch-timeline .el').removeClass('current');
    $(this).addClass('current');

    var ilosc = $(this).data('ilosc');
    var y = $(this).data('y');
    var title = $(this).find('.title').html();
    var desc = $(this).find('desc').html();

    $('.timeline-yeardata .anime').fadeOut(400, function(){
      $('#ilosc-sklepow').html(ilosc);
      $('#current-year').html(y);
      $('.timeline-yeardata .title').html(title);
      $('.timeline-yeardata .desc').html(desc);
      $(this).fadeIn(300);
    })

  });

});

Hope this will help someone.

Answer 3

refer to official jquery example: and play with it.

.animate({
    width: "70%",
    opacity: 0.4,
    marginLeft: "0.6in",
    fontSize: "3em",
    borderWidth: "10px"
  }, 1500 );

Answer 4

See Davion's anwser in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26429849/1804068

HTML:

<div class="parent">
    <span id="mySpan">Something in English</span>
</div>

JQUERY

$('#mySpan').animate({'opacity': 0}, 400, function(){
        $(this).html('Something in Spanish').animate({'opacity': 1}, 400);    
    });

Live example

Answer 5

Following the suggestion by JiminP....

I made a jsFiddle that will "smoothly" transition between two spans in case anyone is interested in seeing this in action. You have two main options:

1. one span fades out at the same time as the other span is fading in
2. one span fades out followed by the other span fading in.

The first time you click the button, number 1 above will occur. The second time you click the button, number 2 will occur. (I did this so you can visually compare the two effects.)

Try it Out: http://jsfiddle.net/jWcLz/594/

Details:

Number 1 above (the more difficult effect) is accomplished by positioning the spans directly on top of each other via CSS with absolute positioning. Also, the jQuery animates are not chained together, so that they can execute at the same time.

HTML

<div class="onTopOfEachOther">
    <span id='a'>Hello</span>
    <span id='b' style="display: none;">Goodbye</span>
</div>

<br />
<br />

<input type="button" id="btnTest" value="Run Test" />

CSS

.onTopOfEachOther {
    position: relative;
}
.onTopOfEachOther span {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
}

JavaScript

$('#btnTest').click(function() {        
    fadeSwitchElements('a', 'b');    
}); 

function fadeSwitchElements(id1, id2)
{
    var element1 = $('#' + id1);
    var element2 = $('#' + id2);

    if(element1.is(':visible'))
    {
        element1.fadeToggle(500);
        element2.fadeToggle(500);
    }
    else
    {
         element2.fadeToggle(500, function() {
            element1.fadeToggle(500);
        });   
    }    
}

Answer 6

If all you're looking to do is change the text you could do exactly as Kevin has said. But if you're trying to run an animation as well as change the text you could accomplish this by first changing the text then running your animation.

For Example:

$("#test").html('The text has now changed!');
$("#test").animate({left: '100px', top: '100px'},500);

Check out this fiddle for full example:

http://jsfiddle.net/Twig/3krLh/1/