I am trying to just fade the content of section#secondary out and once the content has been faded out, the parent (section#secondary) should animate 'shut' in a slider animation.
All this is working however the durations are not and I cannot figure out why.
Here is my code:
HTML
<section id="secondary">
<a href="#" class="slide_button">«</a> <!-- slide in/back button -->
<article>
<h1>photos</h1>
<div class="album_nav"><a href="#">photo 1 of 6</a> | <a href="#">create an album</a></div>
<div class="bar">
<p class="section_title">current
image title</p>
</div>
<section class="
image">
<div class="links">
<a class="_back album_link" href="#">« from the album: james new toy</a>
<nav>
<a href="#" class="_back small_button">back</a>
<a href="#" class="_next small_button">next</a>
</nav>
</div>
<img src="http://localhost/~jannis/3781_doggie_wonderland/www/preview/static/images/sample-image-enlarged.jpg" width="418" height="280" alt="" />
</section>
</article>
<footer>
<embed src="http://localhost/~jannis/3781_doggie_wonderland/www/preview/static/flash/secondary-footer.swf" wmode="transparent" width="495" height="115" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
</footer>
</section> <!-- close secondary -->
jQuery
// =============================
// = Close button (slide away) =
// =============================
$('a.slide_button').click(function() {
$(this).closest('section#secondary').children('*').fadeOut('slow', function() {
$('section#secondary').animate({'width':'0'}, 3000);
});
});
Because the content of section#secondary is variable I use the * selector.
What happens is that the fadeOut uses the appropriate slow speed but as soon as the callback fires (once the content is faded out) the section#secondary animates to width: 0 within a couple of milliseconds and not the 3000 ms ( 3 sec ) I set the animation duration to.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
PS: I cannot post an example at this point but since this is more a matter of theory of jQuery I don't think an example is necessary here. Correct me if I am wrong..
