Question

I’m trying to expand my searchbar using jQuery.
Also I want to hide the nav links.

I have some jQuery code like this. This code works fine when focus.

$(".searchBox input").focus(function(){
    $("#navlinks").css('display','none');
   $(this).css({'width':'200px','-moz-transition':'width 0.5s ease-out','-webkit-transition':'width 0.5s ease-out','transition':'width 0.5s ease-out'});
});

 $(".searchBox input").focus(function(){
       $(this).css({'width':'100px','-moz-transition':'width 0.5s ease-out','-webkit-transition':'width 0.5s ease-out','transition':'width 0.5s ease-out'});
$("#navlinks").css('display','block');
    });

The second function also works fine except it display the content before animation complete.

So I want $("#navlinks").css('display','block'); to be exectuted only when animate complete.

Can anyone tell me how?

Thanks

Answer 1

Since you know how long takes your animations, why do not use setTimeout() after CSS change?
As far as I see your animation takes about 0.5 seconds. You could easily execute your “callback” seamlessly at end of your animation specifying the same amount of time in milliseconds.

 $(".searchBox input").focus(function(){
       $(this).css({'width':'100px','-moz-transition':'width 0.5s ease-out','-webkit-transition':'width 0.5s ease-out','transition':'width 0.5s ease-out'});
       setTimeout( function() {
            $("#navlinks").css('display','block');
       }, 500);
  });