Fading visibility of element using jQuery

Question

I\'m having some trouble with finding the visibility param for JQuery.

Basically... the code below does nothing.

$(\'ul.load_details\').animate({
            


        

Answer 1

This is what worked for me (based on @Alan's answer)

        var foo = $('ul.load_details'); // or whatever
        var duration = "slow";  // or whatever

        if (foo.css('visibility') == 'visible') {
            foo.css({ opacity: 1 }).animate({ opacity: 0 }, duration, function () {
                foo.css({ visibility: "hidden" });
            });
        } else {
            foo.css({ opacity: 0 }).animate({ opacity: 1 }, duration).css({ visibility: "visible" });
        }

When the foo element is visible, then slowly change the opacity to zero (via animate) and then wait until that's done before setting foo's visibility to be hidden. Otherwise, if set to hidden during the animate process then the fading out effect will not happen since it's hidden immediately.

Alternatively, you can use the simpler, cleaner fadeTo():

        var foo = $('ul.load_details'); // or whatever
        var duration = "slow";  // or whatever

        if (foo.css('visibility') == 'visible') {
            foo.fadeTo(duration, 0, function () {
                foo.css({ visibility: "hidden" });
            });
        } else {
            foo.fadeTo(duration, 1).css({ visibility: "visible" });
        }