Javascript fade in fade out without Jquery and CSS3

Question

I am really squeezing my head to make the simple fade in and fade out of the background image work only with javascript without JQuery and CSS3. I know how easy is to call a

Answer 1

Here are my full implementations of fadeIn and fadeOut for cross-browser support (including IE6) which does not require jQuery or any other 3rd-party JS library:

function fadeIn( elem, ms )
{
  if( ! elem )
    return;

  elem.style.opacity = 0;
  elem.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=0)";
  elem.style.display = "inline-block";
  elem.style.visibility = "visible";

  if( ms )
  {
    var opacity = 0;
    var timer = setInterval( function() {
      opacity += 50 / ms;
      if( opacity >= 1 )
      {
        clearInterval(timer);
        opacity = 1;
      }
      elem.style.opacity = opacity;
      elem.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + opacity * 100 + ")";
    }, 50 );
  }
  else
  {
    elem.style.opacity = 1;
    elem.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=1)";
  }
}

function fadeOut( elem, ms )
{
  if( ! elem )
    return;

  if( ms )
  {
    var opacity = 1;
    var timer = setInterval( function() {
      opacity -= 50 / ms;
      if( opacity <= 0 )
      {
        clearInterval(timer);
        opacity = 0;
        elem.style.display = "none";
        elem.style.visibility = "hidden";
      }
      elem.style.opacity = opacity;
      elem.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + opacity * 100 + ")";
    }, 50 );
  }
  else
  {
    elem.style.opacity = 0;
    elem.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=0)";
    elem.style.display = "none";
    elem.style.visibility = "hidden";
  }
}

As others have said, you need to fix your handleClick to properly select a single element, then pass that element to the fade function (which I named fadeOut for clarity). The default time for a jQuery fade is 400ms, so if you want to mimic that, your call might look like this:

function handleClick( evt )
{
  fadeOut( document.getElementById(evt.target.id), 400 );
}