I am trying to get an image to change opacity smoothly over a duration of time. Here's the code I have for it.
<script type="text/javascript">
pulsem(elementid){
var element = document.getElementById(elementid)
jquery(element).pulse({opacity: [0,1]},
{ duration: 100, // duration of EACH individual animation
times: 3, // Will go three times through the pulse array [0,1]
easing: 'linear', // easing function for each individual animation
complete: function() { alert("I'm done pulsing!"); }
})
</script>
<a href="city.htm"><img src="waterloo.png" onmouseover="javascript:pulsem("waterloo")" border="0" class="env" id="waterloo"/></a>
Also, is there a way for this to happen automatically without the need of a mouseover? Thanks.
I'm assuming your code is for the jQuery pulse plugin: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/simple-pulse-plugin-for-jquery/
If your above code is not working, then fix "jquery" to be "jQuery".
For starting it on page load, just do:
jQuery(function() {
jQuery('#yourImageId').pulse({
opacity: [0,1]
}, {
duration: 100, // duration of EACH individual animation
times: 3, // Will go three times through the pulse array [0,1]
easing: 'linear', // easing function for each individual animation
complete: function() {
alert("I'm done pulsing!");
}
});
Add an id to your image and you're golden.
});
To fire the animation of your own accord:
pulsate( $('#waterloo') );
revised code to continually pulsate (wasn't sure if this was what you're after) - the pulsate effect is relegated to it's own function so you can call it directly or in your event handler
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() { // on document ready
$('#waterloo').hover( //hover takes an over function and out function
function() {
var $img = $(this);
$img.data('over', true); //mark the element that we're over it
pulsate(this); //pulsate it
},
function() {
$(this).data('over', false); //marked as not over
});
});
function pulsate(element) {
jquery(element).pulse({opacity: [0,1]}, // do all the cool stuff
{ duration: 100, // duration of EACH individual animation
times: 3, // Will go three times through the pulse array [0,1]
easing: 'linear', // easing function for each individual animation
complete: function() {
if( $(this).data('over') ){ // check if it's still over (out would have made this false)
pulsate(this); // still over, so pulsate again
}
}});
}
<a href="city.htm"><img src="waterloo.png" border="0" class="env" id="waterloo"/></a>
Note - to trigger events, you can use .trigger() or the helper functions, like
$('#waterloo').mouseover() // will fire a 'mouseover' event
or
$('#waterloo').trigger('mouseover');
this might be what you're looking for.
http://www.infinitywebcreations.com/2011/01/how-to-create-a-throbbingpulsing-image-effect-with-jquery/
I personally do something like this to pulse when the mouse hovers over the image and return to full opacity on mouse out...
$(document).ready(function () {
function Pulse(Target, State) {
//Every 750ms, fade between half and full opacity
$(Target).fadeTo(750, State?1:.5, function() {Pulse(Target, !State)});
}
$("#ImageId").hover(function () {
$(this).stop()
Pulse(this);
}, function () {
$(this).stop(false, true).fadeTo(200, 1); //200ms to return to full opacity on mouse out
});
});