var html = "<div id='blah'>Hello stuff here</div>"
$("#mycontent").append(html).fadeIn(999);
This doesn't seem to work.
I just want a cool effect when the content gets appended.
Note: I want just the new "blah" div to fade in, not the entire "mycontent".
$(html).hide().appendTo("#mycontent").fadeIn(1000);
Adding a little more info:
jQuery implements "method chaining", which means you can chain method calls on the same element. In the first case:
$("#mycontent").append(html).fadeIn(999);
you would be applying the fadeIn call to the object which is target of the method chain, in this case #mycontent. Not what you want.
In @icktoofay's (great) answer you have:
$(html).hide().appendTo("#mycontent").fadeIn(1000);
This basically means, create the html, set it as hidden by default, append it to #mycontent and then fade it in. The target of the method chain now is hmtl instead of #mycontent.
This also works
$(Your_html).appendTo(".target").hide().fadeIn(300);
Regards