12. Animation and Other Special Effects
One of the most important features of jQuery is the ability to add animations to changes you are making to elements. This gives the user the feel of a slick, well-developed application rather than a clunky, traditional web page.
This is especially true if you are moving, resizing, or dynamically adding elements to the web page. It is frustrating as a user to all of the sudden have a bunch of new things appear or disappear. Using transitions gives the user a chance to see where elements are expanding from, shrinking to as well as the direction of movement so he can adjust his mind-set to accept the changes.
Get jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
