Question

Trying to do something fairly simple, but it’s eluding me. I have the following HTML:

<div id="four">
                <div id="thumb1" class="suiting-thumb">
                    <img src="img/gallery/suit1-thumb.jpg" alt="" title="" />
                </div>


               <div id="thumb2" class="suiting-thumb">
                    <img src="img/gallery/suit2-thumb.jpg" alt="" title="" />
                </div>


               <div id="thumb3" class="suiting-thumb">
                    <img src="img/gallery/suit3-thumb.jpg" alt="" title="" />
                </div>
</div>

All I would like to do is “dim” the children of the parent div, EXCEPT for the child being hovered. I’m successfully doing so with this jQuery snippet, but there is a brief delay between the fade out / in:

$('.suiting-thumb').hover(function() {
                var thumbBtnIdPrefix = 'thumb';
                var thumbBtnNum = $(this).attr('id').substring((thumbBtnIdPrefix.length));
                $('.suiting-thumb:not(#thumb' + thumbBtnNum + ')').animate({
                    "opacity": .3
                }),200;             
            },
            function() {
                $('.suiting-thumb').animate({
                    "opacity": 1
            }),200;
        });

I feel as though I need to be fading out all the children of the parent div by selecting #four with my hover statement, but I’m not quite sure how to do that. Any help would much appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

The problem is that you’re adding new commands to the animation queue. You have to call stop() which stops all ongoing animations and immediately starts the new one.

$('.suiting-thumb').hover(function() {
    var thumbBtnIdPrefix = 'thumb';
    var thumbBtnNum = $(this).attr('id').substring((thumbBtnIdPrefix.length));
    $('.suiting-thumb:not(#thumb' + thumbBtnNum + ')').stop().animate({
        "opacity": .3
    }), 200;
}, function() {
    $('.suiting-thumb').stop().animate({
        "opacity": 1
    }), 200;
});

http://jsfiddle.net/ywUUL/1/