I'm trying to write a little test page that circulates images through a window (see image). I have colored boxes inside a table (gray border), with each box being a element.
<table id="boxes" style="border: 1px solid #666;">
<tr>
<td><div class="box red"></div></td>
<td><div class="box green"></div></td>
<td><div class="box blue"></div></td>
<td><div class="box yellow"></div></td>
<td><div class="box pink"></div></td>
<td><div class="box lightblue"></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
The effect I'm going for is an endless right-to-left loop, such that when an box's right edge leaves the window's left edge (black bold line), it is then appended to the end of the table to keep going. The appending is easy with jQuery:
$('#boxes td:first').remove().appendTo('#boxes tr')
I'm trying to figure out 2 things: 1. how to have continuous motion right-to-left on the table (jQuery.animate?) 2. how to constantly monitor the right edge of the leading box, possibly with
var tableEdge = $('#boxes').position().left;
var boxEdge = $('#boxes td:first').position().left + $('#boxes td:first').width();
if ( boxEdge < tableEdge ) {
$('#boxes td:first').remove().appendTo('#boxes tr');
}
thanks.