It's a moot point anyway. Got into work this morning to find that the
embedded browser in the price checkers doesn't play nice with even the
slideIn/slideOuts. :\
kev.
On Sep 14, 7:29 am, "ryan.j" wrote:
> have you tried to use a callback instead of the setTimeout?
>
> On Sep 14, 11:37 am, "kev." wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > jquery noob question here. I've got a php script that runs a few
> > price
> > checker kiosks out on the sales floor at work and I've got a
> > element
> > that I can get to slide up when a product is scanned and slide back
> > down
> > after a 5 second pause with:
>
> > $(function() {
> > $("p").slideUp("slow");
> > setTimeout(function(){ $("p").slideDown("slow"); },
> > 5000);
>
> > });
>
> > but when I change the slideUp and slideDown to fadeIn and fadeOut I'm
> > not
> > getting the element to fade in or out. Instead the element shows up
> > on the
> > screen then after 5 seconds the element appears in the position where
> > it
> > ends up after a slideUp.
>
> > Similarly if I change the slideUp and slideDown to 'show' and 'hide'
> > the
> > element again shows up in the spot that it starts the slideUp from
> > then
> > slides up after 5 seconds.
>
> > Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
