Animate height to auto - storing height - slideUp with velocity.js

Question

I'm trying to make a slide-toggle-fade animation like the slideToggle() method but with velocity.js - in the hopes that it will be much smoother.

Because I can't scroll to auto - I am putting the height in variable and using that to animate height. The issue I run into is that the height value is stored once and if the page is slightly resized, then the number is no longer correct. - Also - because the area is hidden on page load, (right after it gets the initial height) I can't check for height again (if window resize occurs)

Eventually I'd like to put it into a function, so keeping things relative it key.

Also, if you haven't used velocity.js, it's basically just like .animate() - so it's not really a part of the question.

HTML

<section>
  <div class="button-w">
    <button>Toggle</button>
  </div>

  <div class="box">

    <p>{{content}}</p>

    <div class="button-w">
      <button>Close</button>
    </div>

  </div>
</section>

CSS

.button-w {
  width: 100%;
  float: left;
}

.box {
  width: 100%;
  border: 1px solid lime;
  overflow: hidden;
  color: white;
}

jquery (velocity.js)

var boxxHeight = $('.box').outerHeight();

$('.box').hide();

$('button').on('click', function() {

    var boxx = $('.box');

    if ( boxx.is(":visible") ) {

      boxx.velocity({ opacity: 0, height: 0 }, { display: "none" });

    } else {

      boxx.velocity({ opacity: 1, height: boxxHeight }, { display: "block" });

    }

});

Any Ideas?

EDIT

I didn't really have any real reason to need the sections to be display: none. This means that I can have an outer box with overflow: hidden, and the content will always have it's natural height to retrieve and work with.

<div class="button-w">
    <button>Toggle</button>
</div>

<div class="box">

    <div class="inner-wrapper">

    {{content}}

    <div class="button-w">
      <button>Close</button>
    </div>

  </div>
</div>

CSS

.box {
  width: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
  color: white;
  padding: 1rem 0;
  .inner-wrapper {
    float: left;
    opacity: 0;
    padding-bottom: 5em;
    background: white;
    color: black;
    padding: 1rem;
  }
}

button {
  display: block;
  padding: 1rem;
  border: 0;
  &:focus {
    outline: 0;
  }
}

.hidden-box {
  height: 0;
  opacity: 0;
  padding: 0;
  .inner-wrapper {
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

jQuery (with velocity.js)

"hide" the .inner-wrapper by setting the .box to height:0 and overflow hidden with .hidden-box class. The the height of the .inner-wrapper is stored and the height animation occurs just on the .box - and an opacity on the .inner-wrapper...

$('.box').addClass('hidden-box')

$('button').on('click', function() {

  var vBoxx = $(this).closest('section').find('.box');
  var vInner_wrapper = $(this).closest('section').find('.inner-wrapper');
  var vElementHeight = vInner_wrapper.outerHeight();

  if ( vBoxx.hasClass("hidden-box") ) {

    vBoxx.velocity({
      height: vElementHeight 
    }, {
      duration: 500,
    }).removeClass('hidden-box');

    setTimeout( function() {
      $(vInner_wrapper).velocity({opacity: 1});
    },250); 

  } else {

    $(vInner_wrapper).velocity({
      opacity: 0
    });

     setTimeout( function() {
      vBoxx.velocity({ height: 0 }).addClass('hidden-box');
    },250); 

  }

});

Working on CodePen HERE:

Answer 1

Why not use el.velocity("reverse"); to close it? The elements original height is already stored within Velocity.