Greetings,
I am changing the width of an element which serves as a bar , and that works. However I can't
make it so that it animates it in the opposite direction. I tried putting - in front of bar_width but to no avail. Width will be dynamically calculated it's just that I want the direction to go to the left rather than to the right like so <------- not ----------->
var bar_width=$(this).css('width') ;
$(this).css('width', '0').animate({ width: bar_width }, queue:false,duration:3500,easing: easing});
You could animate it from right to left by animating both the margin-left
and width
of the element at the same time:
CSS
#bar {
margin-left: 100px;
height: 10px;
width: 0;
background: red;
}
jQuery
$('#bar').animate({
marginLeft: 0,
width: 100
});
In action here.
Alternative, if your element is positioned absolutely you could animate the left
property and width
at the same time.
Instead of 0
you can use "toggle"
as the parameter, like this:
$(this).animate({ width: "toggle" }, queue:false, duration:3500, easing:easing});
"toggle"
will animate from it's full width to 0
, and the reverse next time.