(I am 9 weeks into a boot camp, so I apologize for the potentially rudimentary nature of this...)
I am appending an element to the DOM (a button) within a conditional:
$('.buttonsAndInputs').append(`<button id="clearHistoryButton">Clear All</button>`);
When this button is clicked, it runs through a series of functions to empty an array and clear some other content off the DOM. I would like to use the .fadeOut method of jQuery to remove THE BUTTON.
I have this in a subsequent function:
$('#clearHistoryButton').remove();
I would like to:
$('#clearHistoryButton').fadeOut(1000);
...so that it disappears in a fancy fashion.
It's not working - it simply waits one second and then - POOF - is gone.
This is my first question. This community has been ESSENTIAL in my growth in this realm and, as always, I appreciate all of you so very much.
Did you try transition: opacity 1s in your CSS ?
Advantage:
Hardware accelerated (GPU), i.e. it doesn't bother your main processor (CPU) with this task, whereas jQuery's fadeOut() function is software based and does take CPU resources for that effect.
Steps:
transition: opacity 1s to your CSS rules of the desired button element#clearHistoryButton )button.fadeMeOut with opacity: 0setTimeout(function(){$('#clearHistoryButton').remove()},1000)Run code snippet
$(function() { // Shorthand for $( document ).ready()
$("#clearHistoryButton").on( "click", function() {
// first: fade out the button with CSS
$(this).addClass("fadeMeOut");
// then: after fadeOut effect is complete, remove button from your DOM
setTimeout(function(){
$('#clearHistoryButton').remove();
},1000);
});
});button {
opacity: 1;
-webkit-transition: opacity 1s;
-moz-transition: opacity 1s;
transition: opacity 1s;
}
button.fadeMeOut {
opacity: 0;
}<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id="clearHistoryButton">Press to hide me</button>