Also, see this discussion about using the load event with images:
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/24b107e84adeaaee
On Jan 21, 8:55 pm, Bohdan Ganicky <bohdan.gani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fixed braces:
>
> $('#image').fadeOut(500, function() {
> $(this).attr('src','images/'+newImg).load(function() {
> $(this).fadeIn(1000);
> });
>
> });
>
> --
> Bohdan
>
> On Jan 21, 8:54 pm, Bohdan Ganicky <bohdan.gani...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In theory it would be something like this:
>
> > $('#image').fadeOut(500, function() {
> > $(this).attr('src','images/'+newImg).load(function() {
> > $(this).fadeIn(1000);
> > });
>
> > }
>
> > ...but I'm not at all sure if the "load()" captures the "src"
> > attribute change like that.
>
> > --
> > Bohdan
>
> > On Jan 21, 7:54 pm, LoicDuros <loic.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > I'm new to JQuery and used to use Scriptaculous. I would like to make
> > > the following:
>
> > > A function to fade out an image, then change the src of the image, and
> > > once the new src is loaded, to fade in the image back (so that it's
> > > fading in with the new image loaded).
>
> > > Here is how I did it using Scriptaculous, however, the site will now
> > > use jQuery and so I have to reproduce the same thing with it - is
> > > there such a thing as "observe" in jQuery:
> > > function navAction(newImg) {
> > > new Effect.Fade('image', {duration:0.5, afterFinish:function(){
> > > document.getElementById('image').src = 'images/' + newImg;
> > > $(document.getElementById("image")).observe('load', display);
> > > }
>
> > > });
> > > }
>
> > > function display(event){
> > > new Effect.Appear('image', {duration:1});
>
> > > }
