Animating DIVs on mouse click CC3, jquery, or Combination of both?

[derekwilliamsdesign]

Here’s the scenario,
I have a wrapper 900px wide with an infinite number of div.box’s inside of it. Those boxes are set to have an initial width & height of say 300px by 200px. At that dimension they would only show the img thumbnail that is inside the div.box (top left corner). When user clicks on a div.box, that div box expands to its full size of 600px x 400px revealing the rest of its content. this would also a displace the other div.box(es), but still remain true to the wrapper’s dimensions. The expand div.box would close either on second click or a close button.

I can vaguely remember seeing this done somewhere on the web, but I can not find it anymore. It there a jquery script out there for this or can this be done with pure CSS3?

Thanks for your help!

[doobie]

This can be done with CSS3 in browsers that support it (e.g. Safari/Chrome FF 4). If you use a tool called Modernizr, you can easily detect which browsers support this feature and use jQuery for thost that don’t. You’ll need to write a custom function, but it would be something like this:

$('#wrapper').delegate('.box', 'click', function() {



if ( $(this).hasClass('open') ) {



$(this).removeClass('open').animate({

'width'  : '300px',

'height' : '200px'

}, 500);



} else {



$(this).addClass('open').animate({

'width'  : '600px',

'height' : '400px'

}, 500);



}



});

This will do the trick, assuming that you’ve wrapped all of the div.box ‘s in a wrapper. Just change out that ID and you’re good to go.

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