Css and Jquery Animation

Question

What I'm trying to achieve is this animation

Link to the animation is Material Design

What am I missing?How can I achieve the above result without using position:absolute for the items

what I've done so far

HTML:

<div class="product-list  " id="product_list">  
    <div class="item ">
        <a href="#" data-id="228">
            <div class="item-top">
                <img width="211" height="165" src="" class="et-portfolio-thumbnail img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="product66_26">                    
            </div>
            <div class="item-bottom">
                <div class="item-product-title">Unicity Activate</div>
            </div>
        </a>
    </div>

    <div class="item ">
        <a href="#" data-id="227">
            <div class="item-top">
                <img width="165" height="193" src="" class="et-portfolio-thumbnail img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="product55_24">                    
            </div>
            <div class="item-bottom">
                <div class="item-product-title">Lean Complete</div>
            </div>
        </a>
    </div>

    <div class="item ">
        <a href="#" data-id="223">
            <div class="item-top">
                <img width="245" height="215" src="" class="et-portfolio-thumbnail img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="product44_21">                    
            </div>
            <div class="item-bottom">
                <div class="item-product-title">Bios Life D</div>
            </div>
        </a>
    </div>
</div>

---

CSS

#product_list {
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    text-align: center;
}
.product-list .item {
    display: inline-block;
    position: relative;
    border-radius: 3px;
    margin: 4px;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-align: start;
    background-color: #fff;
    box-shadow: 0 2px 10px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16);
    -webkit-transition: border-radius 500ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1), width 500ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1), height 500ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-transform 500ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);
}
.item-top {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
}
.item-bottom {
    padding: 8px;
    line-height: 1.5;
}

Javascript

$('.item').on('click','a',function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    var target=$(e.currentTarget);
    var par=target.parent();
    par.css({width:par.width()+'px',height:par.height()+'px'});
    //par.css({height:'300px',width:'500px'});
    par.animate({height:'300px'},{"queue": false, "duration":500}).animate({width:'500px'},500,'linear'); par.css({transform:'translate('+0+'px,'+50+'px)scale(1.1,1.1)'});
    par.css({'transform-origin':'0,0',zIndex:'9999'});
});

Fiddle

Answer 1

This may help you: http://jsfiddle.net/holp/vkgLdv38/1

CSS

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:300);
.product-list { list-style: none; padding: 0 }
.product-list  * { font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; }
.product-list li {
    width: 200px;
    float: left;
    margin: 20px;
    box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    background-color: #fff;
    overflow: hidden;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.product-list li div {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    z-index: 10;
}
.product-list li h3 {
    margin: 10px;
    z-index: 1;
}
.product-list li p {
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
    margin: 10px;
    height: 20px;
    z-index: 1;
}
.place {
    visibility: hidden;
}

HTML

<ul class="product-list">  

<li>
<div style="background-color: rgb(246, 255, 118)"></div>
<h3>Pinapple</h3>
<p>Pellentesque mattis vestibulum semper. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Nam ullamcorper lorem lacus, a mattis nibh scelerisque in. Ut non purus dignissim, tristique sem in, pretium tortor. Integer tempus ut sapien sit amet porttitor.</p>
</li>

<li>
<div style="background-color: rgb(167, 143, 212)"></div>
<h3>Grape</h3>
<p>Curabitur ullamcorper, nibh ac faucibus varius, felis nisl lacinia tellus, a mattis tellus augue in urna. Phasellus ac ornare nisi. Aliquam aliquet facilisis vulputate. Nullam accumsan orci quis lorem cursus, at luctus mauris sagittis.</p>
</li>

<li>
<div style="background-color: rgb(128, 177, 211)"></div>
<h3>Blueberry</h3>
<p>Mauris quis pharetra nunc. Nulla pretium diam eros, nec congue diam tempor sed. Quisque hendrerit risus a augue ultrices imperdiet. Ut non purus dignissim, tristique sem in, pretium tortor. Integer tempus ut sapien sit amet porttitor.</p>
</li>

<li>
<div style="background-color: rgb(224, 141, 170)"></div>
<h3>Strawberry</h3>
<p>Aliquam a semper orci. Integer dictum lacus a tellus porta hendrerit. Mauris vel est pretium, gravida eros quis, dignissim massa. Integer mollis vitae enim sit amet mattis. Ut non purus dignissim, tristique sem in, pretium tortor. Integer tempus ut sapien sit amet porttitor.</p>
</li>

</ul>

JS

chosen = null;

$('li').click(function() {

    var object = $(this);
    var margin = object.css('margin').replace(/[^-\d\.]/g, '');
    var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();

    if (chosen == null) {

    var ft = ($(window).height() / 2) - (300 / 2) - margin; var fl = ($(window).width() / 2) - (600 / 2) - margin;

    $('.product-list li').not(this).css('cursor','default');
    object.clone().insertAfter(object).addClass('place');
    object.css({'position':'fixed','top': object.offset().top - margin - scroll,'left': object.offset().left - margin}).animate({'top':ft, 'left':fl,'width':'600px','height':'300px'});
    object.children('div').animate({'width':'300px','height':'300px'});
    setTimeout( function(){
        object.children('div').css({'position':'absolute','top':'0','left':'0'});
        object.children('h3').css({'position':'absolute','top':'0','left':'0'}).animate({'left':'300px'});
        object.children('p').css({'position':'absolute','top':'40px','left':'0','white-space':'normal','width':'280px','height':'240px'}).animate({'left':'300px'});
    },300);
    chosen = this;


    } else if (chosen == this) {

    var ph = $('.place'); var pht = ph.offset().top - margin - scroll; var phl = ph.offset().left - margin; var phw = ph.width(); var phh = ph.height();

    object.children('p').animate({'left':'0'});
    object.children('h3').animate({'left':'0'});
    setTimeout( function(){
        object.children('p').removeAttr('style');
        object.children('h3').removeAttr('style');
        object.children('div').css({'position':'','top':'','left':''}).animate({'width':'200px','height':'200px'});
        object.animate({'top':pht, 'left':phl,'width':phw,'height':phh});
        setTimeout( function(){
            object.children('p').removeAttr('style');
            object.children('h3').removeAttr('style');
            object.children('div').css({'width':'','height':'','left':''});
            ph.remove();
            object.removeAttr('style');
            $('.product-list li').not(this).css('cursor','');
            chosen = null;
        },500);
    },300);

    }
});