Navigation Bar design using switchClass method of jquery.

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Hello everyone,

Well I was trying to implement a navigation bar for the website I am developing, and was trying to implement some simple mouseEnter and mouseLeave effect over it. But I am not being able to switchClass of my Tag from "style1" to "style2" in say 700 milliseconds. Here's my Code:

<script type="text/javascript">

$(function(){
       $("#menu a").mouseEnter(function(){
               $(this).switchClass("style1","style2",700);
       });
       $("#menu a").mouseLeave(function(){
               $(this).switchClass("style2","style1",700);
       });
});

</script>

And the div tag for the menu is:

<div>
<a class="style1" href="#">Home</a>
<a class="style1" href="#">About</a>
<a class="style1" href="#">Contact</a>
</div>

Please note that I have already included or referenced the css stylesheet, containing ".style1" and ".style2" and the jquery source package already.

Posted 5-Aug-13 8:58am

pallavinan

Updated 5-Aug-13 11:58am

Richard C Bishop

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-08-05T12:17:00

The problem is the top-level function. Why do you think it should be called, in response to what? It doesn't seem to make any sense. Instead, you should do something like:

JavaScript

$( document ).ready(function() {
    menuItemWrapper = $("#menu a"); // via an id descriptor
    menuItemWrapper.hover(
        function () { // mouse goes in:
            menuItemWrapper.switchClass("style1", "style2", 700);
        },
        function () { // mouse goes out:
            menuItemWrapper.switchClass("style2", "style1", 700);
        }
     );
});

I also simplified handling a bit, replacing two methods .mouseEnter() and .mouseLeave() with on .hover() accepting two handler, on mouse moving in and out.

Please see:
http://learn.jquery.com/about-jquery/how-jquery-works/[^],
http://api.jquery.com/hover/[^],
http://api.jqueryui.com/switchClass/[^].

—SA