Question

I have this dropdown code that works fine, it does a simple display. But, I’d like to add a simple jQuery effect like slideDown. How would I add that in?

var timeout    = 500;
var closetimer = 0;
var ddmenuitem = 0;

function jsddm_open()
{  jsddm_canceltimer();
   jsddm_close();
ddmenuitem = $(this).find('ul').css('visibility', 'visible');}

function jsddm_close()
{  if(ddmenuitem) ddmenuitem.css('visibility', 'hidden');}

function jsddm_timer()
{  closetimer = window.setTimeout(jsddm_close, timeout);}

function jsddm_canceltimer()
{  if(closetimer)
{  window.clearTimeout(closetimer);
   closetimer = null;}}

$(document).ready(function()
{  $('#jsddm > li').bind('mouseover', jsddm_open)
   $('#jsddm > li').bind('mouseout',  jsddm_timer)});

document.onclick = jsddm_close;

Thanks.

Answer 1

Replace your jsddm_open and jsddm_close function with the following:
For [speed] you can either use “slow”, “fast”, “normal”, or a number of milliseconds for the effect.

function jsddm_open()
{
    jsddm_canceltimer();
    jsddm_close();
    ddmenuitem = $(this).find('ul').show([speed],[callback]);
}

function jsddm_close()
{
    if(ddmenuitem)
        ddmenuitem.hide([speed]);
}