Question

I have the following snippet of code:

http://jsfiddle.net/Wcexy/

Which reads:

HTML:

<div id="secrets-slider"></div>

CSS:

#secrets-slider {
    position: relative;
    left: 50%;
    top:50px;
    height: 200px;
}

.ui-state-default, .ui-widget-content .ui-state-default {
    background: red;
}

Javascript:

var flash = 1;

$(function () {
    $("#secrets-slider").slider({
        orientation: "vertical",
        range: "min",
        min: 0,
        max: 100,
        value: 70,
        animate: 3000,
        slide: function (event, ui) {
            $("#amount").val(ui.value);
            flash=0;        
        },
    });
    function flashing() {
        if (flash === 0) {
            $("#secrets-slider a").stop(true, true);
        } else {
            $("#secrets-slider a").animate(
                {
                    backgroundColor: '#ff8c00'
                }, 1000,
                function() {
                    $("#secrets-slider a").animate(
                        {
                            backgroundColor: '#f00'
                        }, 1000
                    )
                }                                         
            )
            setTimeout(flashing,2000);
        }
    }
    flashing();
});

Now I implement this code into a website I am trying to make for a friend. Available here: http://blah.eu5.org/

When I add this code, it doesn’t seem to function. Noticably, the jquery slider handle doesn’t pulse at all. I have checked that the event is firing with alert("Moo"); and it is, but it doesn’t seem to be altering the CSS. Why might this be?

Answer 1

After a lot of headaches, I figured out that using .animate() on a background is actually part of the JQuery UI plugin, and I was using a minimalised version of the UI plugin which didn’t include this code(pretty much had the slider and that was it).

Let that be a lesson to me.