Glad to have pointed you in a good direction.
On 7/24/07, tonywhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cool - I get it now.
I found that my problem was really that the target div for inserting
my HTML wasn't set to display:none; to begin with, so animating it to
a block state was just not happening.
Thanks for your response - I appreciate the group.
On Jul 24, 11:08 am, "Benjamin Sterling"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony,
> try:
> (for an ID)
> $('#emptyDiv').load(externalHTML, function(){
> $(this).slideDown('slow');
>
> });
>
> (for a class)
> $('.emptyDiv').load(externalHTML, function(){
> $(this).slideDown('slow');
> });
>
> On 7/24/07, tonywhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I'm new to jQuery and can't figure this one out.
>
> > Instead of using an ajax get and innerHTML to load in external html, I
> > can just use jQuery's load function:
>
> > $(emptyDiv).load(externalHTMLFile);
>
> > which I like!
>
> > I would like to do is make better use of the graceful animations that
> > jQuery has. I would prefer that the external HTML not show up so
> > suddenly, but instead to slide or fade in place. It's not clear to me
> > how to make that happen. I tried "chaining", but by the time the
> > content is loaded, the chained animation doesn't really do the trick:
>
> > $emptyDiv).load(externalHTMLFile, function()
> > {$emptyDiv.slideDown('slow');});
>
> > If you know of answer, please share. Thanks for any help.
>
> > Tony
>
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