Jquery: How to combine addCLass() after() and slideDown()

damian picture damian · Oct 12, 2011 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I'm trying to add a Class to an existing div container and insert a new div (on success) below the existing one.

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $(".entry").click(function(){
     $('#content').addClass("col2",1000).after('<div class="box col2">test</div>', function(){
        $(this).slideDown();
     });
  });
});
<script>

Unfortunately this code doesn't work correctly. The slideDown function doesn't work and the new div does already appear even if the previous function hasn't already finished.

Would be nice if someone could help me.

Answer

Benjamin Crouzier picture Benjamin Crouzier · Oct 12, 2011

Your closing tag should be </script>

Also, the effect that you want may be the folowing:

$(".entry").click(function() {
    $('#content').addClass("col2").after('<div class="box col2">test</div>');
    $('.box:last').hide().show(300);
});

Fiddle here


Edit: Based on you comment, I guess that maybe you want this:

$(".entry").click(function() {
    $('#content').addClass("col2");
    setTimeout(function() {
        $('#content').after('<div class="box col2">test</div>');
        $('.box:last').hide().show(300);
    }, 500);
});

Fiddle here