animate opacity out, insert html, animate opacity in

Question

With my jquery I'm trying to make the transition from a message to a loading function easy on the eyes by animate the opasity of the message out, inserting the loading.gif and animating the opacity back in. It fails.

$('#powerSearchSubmitButton').click(function(ev) {
    startLoad();
    return false;
});
function startLoad() {
    $('.message').each(function(i) {
        $(this).animate({opacity: 0}, 500, function() {
            $(this).html("<img src=\"/content/pics/loadingBig.gif\" alt=\"loading\" style=\"opacity:0\"/>");
            $(this).animate({opacity: 1},500);
        });
    };
    return true;
};

When I leave out the .html() call, it works fine (except off course the image is not there; So I think that it is beacuse the html isn't inserted with opacity:0; But when I inserted it with style="opacity:0" it cannot fade back in...

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

Try this:

$(this).fadeOut(500, function() {
     $(this).html("<img src='content/pics/loadingBig.gif' alt='loading'/>");
    });
$(this).fadeIn(500);

Comments

[Boris Callens]

thanks, fadeIn and fadeOut are indeed exactly the same. Internally they use the same as I did there.

[Boris Callens]

the animation already IS on a container ( div with class "message").

[Boris Callens]

Yes, if you check previous answers you can see that I tried that. It still gives me an IN YOUR FACE load of the loading gif in all browsers but FF