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Is there a way, using Jquery to grow and then shrink an image (with animation so it looks smooth) on hovering without affecting the layout too much (I'm assuming the padding would have to shrink and then grow as well).
With a bit of messing around, I finally came up with the solution, thanks to everyone who helped out.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.growImage {position:relative;width:80%;left:15px;top:15px}
.growDiv { left: 100px; top: 100px;width:150px;height:150px;position:relative }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="growDiv">
<img class="growImage" src="image.jpg" alt="my image">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.growImage').mouseover(function(){
//moving the div left a bit is completely optional
//but should have the effect of growing the image from the middle.
$(this).stop().animate({"width": "100%","left":"0px","top":"0px"}, 400,'swing');
}).mouseout(function(){
$(this).stop().animate({"width": "80%","left":"15px","top":"15px"}, 200,'swing');
});;
});
</script>
</body></html>
695
If you have your image positioned absolutely to the document in CSS, the rest of the page layout should not change when you animate your image.
You should be able to use jQuery's animate() function. The code would look something like this:
$("#yourImage").hover(
function(){$(this).animate({width: "400px", height:"400px"}, 1000);},
function(){$(this).animate({width: "200px", height:"200px"}, 1000);}
);
This example would grow the image with id=yourImage to 400px wide and tall when moused over, and bring it back to 200px wide and tall when the hover ends. That said, your issue lies more in HTML/CSS than it does jQuery.
90
The grow and shrink operations are easy with .animate:
$("#imgId").click(function(){
$(this).animate({
width: newWidth,
height: newHeight
}, 3000 );
});
The problem is how to do this without changing the layout of your page. One way to do this is with a copy that is positioned absolutely over the content. Another might be to absolutely position the image inside a relative fixed size div - though IE might have problems with that.
Here is an existing library that seems to do what you're asking http://justinfarmer.com/?p=14
9
You could wrap the image in a div (or whatever html element you think is appropriate, li etc) with it's overflow set to hidden. Then use jQuery .animate to grow that div, in whatever way you like.
So for example the html could be
<div class="grower">
<img src="myimg.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="my image">
</div>
Then your css would look like
.grower {width:250px;height:250px;overflow:hidden;position:relative;}
So your image is essentially cropped by the div, which you can then grow on any event to reveal the full size of the image using jQuery
$('.grower').mouseover(function(){
//moving the div left a bit is completely optional
//but should have the effect of growing the image from the middle.
$(this).stop().animate({"width": "300px","left":"-25px"}, 200,'easeInQuint');
}).mouseout(function(){
$(this).stop().animate({"width": "250px","left":"0px"}, 200,'easeInQuint');
});;
NB: You may want to add in additional css into your js, like an increased z-index to your div so that it can grow over the layout etc
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