Question

Trying to open/close a div with the direction arrow changing on open and close but staying attached to the div as it closes and opens.

http://jsfiddle.net/siiimple/GqJj8/8/

Ideally I would like it to slide to the left as it closes (fast), then open to the right. The close “-” would change to “+” when it closed.

Thanks for any help 🙂

Answer 1

Departed from crowjonah’s solution, and came up with something that I think is closer to your spec.

Check it out here:

http://jsfiddle.net/VLNDL/

First, restructured the divs a little so that the expand/contract buttons is a peer of the sliding div; so that it stays atatched to it during the transition:

<div id="intro-wrap">
<div class="open-intro">+</div>
<div class="close-intro">-</div>
<div id="contentWrap">
    <h1 class="main-header">Here is a Title</h1>
    <p class="main-desc">You can write whatever you want about yourself here. You can say you're a superhuman alien ant, arrived from the nether regions of Dwarf-Ant-Dom.</p>
</div>

​
Then refactored the CSS to: 1. make it a little simpler, 2: change around block, relative, float, and absolute so that the buttons are “pinned” to the relative div, and that’s it:

    #intro-wrap {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
    border-left: 25px solid rgba(0,0,0,.2);
    width: 200px;
}
#contentWrap{
    background: rgba(0,0,0,.8);
    padding: 15px 40px 25px 30px;
}

#intro-wrap h1 {
    font-family: "PT Sans Narrow";
    font-size: 25px;
    color: #fff;
    font-weight: 700;
    margin-bottom: 0px !important;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
}

#intro-wrap p {
    line-height: 19px;
    color: #999;
}
.open-intro,
.close-intro {
    position:absolute;
    left:200px;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 25px;
    height: 25px;
    z-index: 50;
    padding-left:15px;
}
.open-intro {
    display: none;
    background: yellow 
}
.close-intro {
    background: red; 
}

The only thing I changed in the js is that I disabled the opacity animation, but you could bring it back — I just wouldn’t target #intro-wrap with it, you should instead target contentWrap with it:

    $('.open-intro').click(function() {
    $('#intro-wrap').animate({
    //opacity: 1,
    left: '0',
  }, 500, function() {
    // Animation complete.
  });
    $('.open-intro').hide();
    $('.close-intro').show();
});


$('.close-intro').click(function() {
    $('#intro-wrap').animate({
    //opacity: 0.25,
    left: '-225',
  }, 400, function() {
    // Animation complete.
  });
    $('.open-intro').show();
    $('.close-intro').hide();
});

J