Question

I’m going through a pretty amazing ruby on rails course. Just a second ago I learned about flash hashes that show a message after some action has been performed.

Obviously, you can apply styling to it and what have you, but I wonder if there are ready-to-go javascript snippets out there that, in the case of flash hashes, would slide in for a second, and then disappear? (much like the stackoverflow message bar that appears up top)

I don’t know if learning rudimentary javascript is something I’d want to do right now (maybe later, I need to stick with one thing) so I was wondering if there was some resource that is known for ready to go scripts like that?

Merci 🙂

Answer 1

This is not exactly what you asked for but the jQuery and jQuery UI libraries provide a fair number of animation effects that you might find useful.

• jQuery UI effect() demos – you can also view the source to see how it’s being done.
• jQuery effects – in particular, you might be interested in fadeIn() and fadeOut(). Again, you can also view the source to see how to use these functions.