Question

I want to:

1. click on the “NEW” button adds new DIV into “CONTAINER” – this works fine

2. click on the “MOVE” button – take $array – then move container to good position – then for .each item in $array append new ‘DIV’ in “CONTAINER” – then animate “CONTAINER to “left: 0” – this doesn’t work

3. click on the “REMOVE” button – animate “CONTAINER” out of screen, and remove all DIVs from “CONTAINER”

4. JsFiddle Example

5. Why it does not work on web?

HTML

<div class="panel">
    <button class='new'> + </button>
    <button class='move'> &gt; </button>
    <button class='remove'> &lt; </button>
</div>
<div class="container">
</div>

CSS

.block {
   margin       : 0px;
   width        : 200px;
   display      : inline-block;
   border-right : thin dashed #aaa;
   opacity      : 0;
}
.head {
   margin : 0px;
   padding: 5px;
   height : 30px;
   background-color: red;
   color  : white;
}
.body {
   margin : 0px;
   padding: 5px;
   height : 190px;
   background-color: #ddd;
   color  : black;
}
.panel {
   position  : absolute;
   top       : 50px;
   padding   : 5px;
   color     : #FFF;
   font-size : 15px;
   background: #d30;
   height    : 25px;
   -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
   -moz-border-radius: 4px;
   border-radius: 4px;
   cursor    : pointer;
}
.container {
   position: absolute;
   top  : 90px;
   left : 0px;
}
button{
   width   : 25px;
   background  : none;
   cursor      : pointer;
   font-family : 'voltaeftu-regular',Times New Roman;
   font-size   : 18px;
   color   : #fff;
   border  : none;
   margin  : 0px;
   padding : 0px;
}

jQuery:

$(".remove").click(function(){
    var x_width = $('.container').find('.block').width();
    var x_all = $('.container').find('.block').size();
    var all_width = -10 - ( x_width * x_all ) ;
    $(".container").animate({
        left: all_width
    }, 500 );
 });

$(".new").click(function()  {
       $('.container').append( $('<div class="block" id="new"><div class="head">HEADER</div><div class="body">text text text</div></div>', {
           css: {
               display: 'inline-block',
               opacity: 0
           }
       }).animate({ opacity: 1  }) );
});

// array
var $array = [ '001', '002', '003', '004', '005' ];

$(".move").click(function(){
   var array_length = $array.length;
   var array_width = 0 - array_length * 200;
   $('.container').css ({ left: array_width});
   $.each( $array , function(item, value){
               $('.container').apped('<div class="block" id="'+value+'"><div  class="head">HEADER '+value+'</div><div class="body">text text  text</div></div>', {
                       css: {
                           display: 'inline-block',
                           opacity: 0
                           }
                   }).animate({ opacity: 1  });
           });
    $('.container').animate({ left: 0});
});

Answer 1

One issue you are having is that you are not counting the width of the original block when moving it to left:0, here is a fix:

var block_width = $(".block").width();
var array_width = (array_length * block_width) - block_width;
$('.container').css ({ left: array_width});

Before, you were moving it over the width of itself * the length of the array, which means it got pushed off the screen since it’s already existing width wasn’t figured in.

But after I fix that, the divs just kind of stack up. I assume you want them to line up horizontal?