One should not prevent the other. It's probably some conflict, do you have any other scripts besides jQuery in your page?
On Jun 23, 3:52 pm, Matthew <mvbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to slideUp a container Div and using the slideUp's > callback parameter call slideDown on a different element that is not > inside the slideUp container Div: > > $("#pageWrap").slideUp(1000, function(){ > $("#externalform").slideDown(500); > $("#btn_uopBack").fadeIn(250); > > }); > > One again all the elements being used with the effects are not > children or parents of each other. > > The problem seems to be that when you call a slideDown or slideUp > inside a slideUp or slideDown callback the intial effect does not > work. So in my above example the $("#pageWrap").slideUp just jumps up > without a slide. I need the callback so I can have the effects happen > after the initial slideUp. Since I'm calling effects on different > elements I can't do the dot chain. Any other way to make this happen? > I'd like to avoid settimeout() if possible. > > ~ Matthew