How to do fade-in and fade-out with JavaScript and CSS
I want to make an HTML div tag fade in and fade out.
I have some code that fades out, but when I fade in, the opacity of the div stays at 0.1 and doesn't increase.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Fade to Black</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function slidePanel(elementToSlide, slideSource)
{
var element = document.getElementById(elementToSlide);
if(element.up == null || element.up == false) {
setTimeout("fadeOut(\"" + elementToSlide + "\")", 100);
element.up = true;
slideSource.innerHTML = "Bring it down";
} else {
setTimeout("fadeIn(\"" + elementToSlide + "\")", 100);
element.up = false;
slideSource.innerHTML = "Take it up";
}
}
function fadeIn(elementToFade)
{
var element = document.getElementById(elementToFade);
element.style.opacity += 0.1;
if(element.style.opacity > 1.0) {
element.style.opacity = 1.0;
} else {
setTimeout("fadeIn(\"" + elementToFade + "\")", 100);
}
}
function fadeOut(elementToFade)
{
var element = document.getElementById(elementToFade);
element.style.opacity -= 0.1;
if(element.style.opacity < 0.0) {
element.style.opacity = 0.0;
} else {
setTimeout("fadeOut(\"" + elementToFade + "\")", 100);
}
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div id="slideSource"
style="width:150px; height:20px;
text-align:center; background:green"
onclick="slidePanel('panel', this)">
Take It up
</div>
<div id="panel"
style="width:150px; height:130px;
text-align:center; background:red;
opacity:1.0;">
Contents
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
What am I doing wrong and what is the best way to fade in and fade out an element?
Answer
Here is a more efficient way of fading out an element:
function fade(element) {
var op = 1; // initial opacity
var timer = setInterval(function () {
if (op <= 0.1){
clearInterval(timer);
element.style.display = 'none';
}
element.style.opacity = op;
element.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=' + op * 100 + ")";
op -= op * 0.1;
}, 50);
}
you can do the reverse for fade in
setInterval or setTimeout should not get a string as argument
google the evils of eval to know why
And here is a more efficient way of fading in an element.
function unfade(element) {
var op = 0.1; // initial opacity
element.style.display = 'block';
var timer = setInterval(function () {
if (op >= 1){
clearInterval(timer);
}
element.style.opacity = op;
element.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=' + op * 100 + ")";
op += op * 0.1;
}, 10);
}