jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques - Index of

Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 7
Animation on the Web 7
The power of animated UIs 8
When to use animations 9
When not to use animations 10
Animation checklist 10
Animating with jQuery 10
The template file 11
Creating a project folder 13
A basic animation example 13
Time for action – creating an animated loader 14
Summary 17
Chapter 2: Fading Animations 19
Fading animations 20
Configuring the animations with arguments 20
jQuery's Unified Animation API 21
Enhancing simple CSS hover states with fadeIn 22
Time for action – adding the underlying markup and styling 23
Time for action – scripting the animation 25
Fading elements out 27
Time for action – creating the dialog 29
Fading PNGs in IE 31
Using fadeToggle() for convenient state-checking logic 33
Time for action – showing and hiding with fadeToggle() 34
Greater opacity control with fadeTo() 36
Animating to partial opacity 37
Time for action – creating the example page 38