switching and then fading an image simultaneously

Question

When a user clicks on a small thumbnail image I then want a larger div element on the same page to then display that image. So far that works with the following code:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("img#thumb").click(function () {              //when image with ID thumb is clicked change src 
    var imgpath = $(this).attr("src");
    $("img#cover").attr("src", imgpath);
});

});

However I now want the old image to fade out while simultaneously switching the new one depending on whichever thumbnail the user clicks. I track the thumb clicked by making jQuery save the src file to a variable then put that in a new path using .attr()

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Not sure i catched what you need but this should be ok, try :

  $(function(){
        $("img#thumb").bind('click',function () {               
        var img = $(this).clone(); //this clones the img, so you do not need to re-load that using src path
        $(this).fadeOut(500);
        $("img#cover").hide().html(img).fadeIn(500); //remove .hide() segment if you just are hiding by css rules

        });

        });