Question

I am trying to hide a div with a fadeout effect but it doesn’t seem to work..

$('#messageDiv').hide().fadeOut('slow'); Any suggestion.

I am showing an error div using a custom function?

function getErrorMsgStyle(txt) {
    return "<table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'><tr style='line-height:7px;'><td>&nbsp;</td></tr></table><div class='error_Style_Border' id='messageDiv'><a href='javascript:void(0);' onClick=\"$('#messageDiv').fadeOut('slow');\"  class='link'><table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'><tr style='line-height:2px;'><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td class='table_error_Style_Border'><table width='97%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center' >" + "<tr style='line-height:2px;'><td colspan='15' align='center'></td></tr>" + "<tr ><td width='10px'>&nbsp;</td><td colspan='12' align='center' ><span class='error-txt'>" + txt + "</span></td><td width='10px' class='error-close'>X</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr></table></td></tr>" + "<tr style='line-height:2px;'><td>&nbsp;</td></tr></table></a></div><a href='javascript:void(0);' onClick=\"$('#messageDiv').fadeOut('slow');\" class='link'><table width='100%' border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'><tr style='line-height:7px'><td>&nbsp;</td></tr></table></a>";
} 

Also $('#messageDiv').fadeOut('slow'); doesn’t seem to work

Answer 1

$('#messageDiv').fadeOut('slow');

or

$('#messageDiv').fadeOut(250);

meaning the fade should take 250 milliseconds.

Ensure also that your element has the name of messageDiv and not something else.

edit

You could use a classname instead if the id if you are using webForms and finding that the id is not what you’re expecting. I actually prefer this approach as it’s less hit-n-miss

edit 2

Change your href to href='.' and your click event to $('#messageDiv').fadeOut('slow');return false;