Question

I have a standard ul list which contains five li elements. After the third element, I’ve placed a button in the list with the CSS class .morecats.

<ul>
    <li>1</li>
    <li>2</li>
    <li>3</li>
    <button class="morecats">+</button>
    <li>4</li>
    <li>5</li>
</ul>

Using jQuery, I have hidden the first three li elements:

$('ul')
  .find('li:gt(3)')
  .hide()
  .end();

Now, I’d like jQuery to fade in and show the hidden li elements when the user hovers over the button .morecats. I’d also like a separate div called .bgto fade in/appear.

How could this be accomplished?

Answer 1

One way to accomplish this would be through the jQuery hover function. The official example even has a fade in and fade out example you can look at.

$(".morecats").hover(
    function(){   // When the hover begins
        $('li').slice(-2).fadeIn(500);
    }, 
    function(){   // When the hover ends
        $('li').slice(-2).fadeOut(500);
    } 
);

The slice gets the last two li elements.

Jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wDLVQ/2/