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JavaScript

Posted by Tushar Singh
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points

jQuery fade

http://codepen.io/tushar_13/full/dMRewy/

Can someone please take a look at my code, When I click the "Surprise Me" button for a new quote, fade function is behaving absurdly.

What I mean by absurd is When I click the button for a new quote, it first shows the next quote for just a second and then performs some fade stuff!

What I want is when I click the button, the quote on the page fades out and the new quote fades in...

What should I do?? Any help?

Line 51(js file)

4 Answers

Luca Botticelli
Luca Botticelli
Courses Plus Student 8,753 Points

I changed it so that the function quoteGen() had same delay of the fadeIn/fadeOut methods. Try it like this

$(".btn").on("click", function () {
    $(".quotebox").fadeOut(1000);
    setTimeout(function() { quoteGen(); }, 1000);
    $(".quotebox").fadeIn(1000);
});
Tushar Singh
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points

ok it works! thanks but what is happening really in this code?

Correct me If I am wrong..

First the element fades out, then we are restricting the function quoteGen to take a pause for 1sec and then after 1 sec, the text fades in because the function starts running again.

Luca Botticelli
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Luca Botticelli
Courses Plus Student 8,753 Points
Luca Botticelli
Luca Botticelli
Courses Plus Student 8,753 Points

I've changed your jQuery code at line 50. Like this it should go better

$(".btn").on("click", function () {
    $(".quotebox").hide();
    $(".quotebox").fadeIn(1000);
    quoteGen();

});
Tushar Singh
PLUS
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points
Tushar Singh
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points

Thanks man! So it first hides the quote and then displays it with a fading effect 1000ms.

But what if I want to fade it out as well?

Tushar Singh
PLUS
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points
Tushar Singh
Tushar Singh
Courses Plus Student 8,692 Points

And my second question is How do I use API for generating quotes??

I have no idea how to do that!