January 6, 2011
JQuery – Fade To Color On Mouse Hover
Question by anon445699
I have the following JQuery code to fade the background color of a div to a different color when the mouse hovers over the div element. It works great but it requires jqueryui.js to work. My pages already use the jquery.js for other purposes, so I have to load both frameworks.
Can this be done only with jquery instead of jqueryui?
<!-- fade page onload -->
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#page_effect').fadeIn(1000);
});
<!-- fade login form to color on hover -->
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#frmLogin").hover(
function() {
$(this).stop().animate({ backgroundColor: "#fff"}, 800);
},
function() {
$(this).stop().animate({ backgroundColor: "#e6e6e6" }, 800);
});
});
Thank you!
Answer by Damien-at-SF
Little bit hacky, but its the best I could come up with…
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/Damien_at_SF/paDmg/
Code:
<div id="frmLogin">
<div id="bg"></div>
<div id="text">BLAH BLAH HAHAHAH</div>
</div>
Fade in the ‘bg’ div (which is the background colour) when hovering over the content…
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#text").hover(
function() {
$("#bg").stop().fadeOut();
},
function() {
$("#bg").stop().fadeIn();
});
});
CSS for positioning:
#frmLogin {
position:relative;
height:400px;
width:800px;
}
#bg{
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
border:1px solid black;
background:#e6e6e6;
}
#text {
background:transparent;
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
border:1px solid black;
}
jQueryUI is an awesome tool, I’d definitely use it over my solution…
Hope that helps 🙂
Answer by Starx
If you are OK with Jquery UI, a better solution would be just this
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#sample").mouseover(function() {
$(this).animate({ backgroundColor:'#f00'},1000);
}).mouseout(function() {
$(this).animate({ backgroundColor:'#ccc'},1000);
});
});
