Cancel all queued jQuery slideUp and slideDown animations

javascript jquery animation slideup slidedown
Candidasa picture Candidasa · Mar 2, 2010 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

I have an interface that makes heavy use of the jQuery slideUp and slideDown effect to expand items in a tri-state kind of way.

onmouseover: function() { 
this.find('.details', this).slideDown(); 
},
onmouseout: function() { 
this.find('.details', this).slideUp(); 
}

However, when the user quickly moves the mouse over these interface elements the animations can't keep up and the items will be sliding up and down long after the mouse has left the interface area.

Is there a way to cancel all the queued-up slide animations when the mouse leaves the item's container div?

Answer

Matt Crest picture Matt Crest · Mar 2, 2010

I believe you should be able to just add a .stop() and it'll take care of that for you:

onmouseover: function() { 
this.find('.details', this).stop().slideDown(); 
},
onmouseout: function() { 
this.find('.details', this).stop().slideUp(); 
}

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