I'm trying to set up a website that loads pages through ajax calls replacing the current contents of with the ajax response. I'm putting a # and a page name at the end of my URLs so that people can book mark pages.
I'm new to jQuery and to a lesser extent JavaScript but I'm trying to get a different page animation when I go to a page that is stored in a sub folder. fadeIn() works fine on both pages and pages in sub-folders however I can't get .slideDown() or .animate() to work at all. Here is an extract from my code:
<script>
//All pages are stored in a folder called 'pages' or a subfolder of 'pages'
$(document).ready(function(){
var myUrl = $(location).attr('href');
var noPage = myUrl.indexOf('#');
if(noPage == -1) {
location.hash = 'home';
}
window.onhashchange = function() {
pageChange();
}
function pageChange() {
var myUrl = $(location).attr('href');
var page = myUrl.substring(myUrl.indexOf('#') + 1, myUrl.length);
$.get('pages/' + page + '.html', function(pageHtml) {
if (page.indexOf('/') != -1) {
$('.main').hide().html(pageHtml).slideDown(400);
} else {
$('.main').hide().html(pageHtml).fadeIn(400);
}
});
};
pageChange();
});
</script>
If I'm approaching this from completely the wrong direction and that's why it's not working do feel free to point me in the correct direction by giving me an example of how it should work.
Got it!
I was using the css min-height property with a couple of my divs so that the page would expand automatically with the content if there was a lot on the page. If I remove the min-height property and replace it with a fixed height .slideDown() works fine.
Here are some links for more info if anyone else has the same issue: http://www.only10types.com/2011/09/jquery-slidedown-doesnt-work-on.html http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Around_The_Minimum_Height_Glitch