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Smooth animations with callbacks

In Javascript/jQuery, Qucik Tips on 3 July 2011 with no comments

This is something I’ve learned recently. Code like the following can be troublesome. Elements may be jumping around a bit depending on your HTML/CSS. $(document).ready(function() { $(“#some_element”).fadeOut(‘slow’); $(“another_element”).fadeIn(‘slow’); });   Instead try using callbacks. A callback is a function that is called after the current function has finished. In the previous example an empty callback [...]