Animating inline elements with jQuery

Question

I am trying to show and hide an inline element (eg a span) using jQuery.

If I just use toggle(), it works as expected but if I use toggle(\"slow\") to give it an ani

Answer 1

toggle() has a bunch of weird things with it, including hiding or transforming odd elements at times. here's a similar solution:

$('.toggle').click(function() {
  $('.hide').animate({
    'opacity' : 'toggle',
  });
});

edit: here's a way to add smooth sliding, with minimal extra HTML markup:

var hidepos = $('.hide').offset().left;
var slidepos = $('.slide').offset().left;

$('.toggle').click(function() {
    var goto = ($('.slide').offset().left < slidepos) ? slidepos : hidepos;

    $('.slide').css({
        'left' : $('.slide').offset().left,
        'position' : 'fixed',
    }).animate({
        'left' : goto,
    }, function() {
        $(this).css('position', 'static');
    });

    $('.hide').animate({
        'opacity' : 'toggle',
    });
});

html:

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