Is there a way in jQuery to animate the css3 border-radius property available in Webkit and Mozilla browsers?
I haven't found a plugin that will do it.
-webkit-border-radius
-moz-border-radius
I originally expected that something like...
$("selector")
.css({borderRadius: 10});
.animate({borderRadius: 30}, 900);
...would work. But, I was wrong: Webkit allows you to set the value for all four corners via borderRadius
, but won't let you read it back - so with the code above, the animation will always start at 0 instead of 10. IE has the same problem. Firefox will let you read it back, so everything works as expected there.
Well... border-radius has sort of a history of implementation differences.
Fortunately, there's a work-around: just specify each corner radius individually:
$("selector")
.css({
borderTopLeftRadius: 10,
borderTopRightRadius: 10,
borderBottomLeftRadius: 10,
borderBottomRightRadius: 10 })
.animate({
borderTopLeftRadius: 30,
borderTopRightRadius: 30,
borderBottomLeftRadius: 30,
borderBottomRightRadius: 30}, 900);
Note that if you wish to maintain compatibility with older browsers, you can go all-out and use the old browser-prefixed names:
$("selector")
.css({
borderTopLeftRadius: 10,
borderTopRightRadius: 10,
borderBottomLeftRadius: 10,
borderBottomRightRadius: 10,
WebkitBorderTopLeftRadius: 10,
WebkitBorderTopRightRadius: 10,
WebkitBorderBottomLeftRadius: 10,
WebkitBorderBottomRightRadius: 10,
MozBorderRadius: 10
})
.animate({
borderTopLeftRadius: 30,
borderTopRightRadius: 30,
borderBottomLeftRadius: 30,
borderBottomRightRadius: 30,
WebkitBorderTopLeftRadius: 30,
WebkitBorderTopRightRadius: 30,
WebkitBorderBottomLeftRadius: 30,
WebkitBorderBottomRightRadius: 30,
MozBorderRadius: 30
}, 900);
This starts to get pretty crazy though; I would avoid it if possible.