message animate

shortly highlight messages on pageload to draw attention to it

by Laurens Maneschijn

HTML

<script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jquery/jquery-color/master/jquery.color.js"></script>
<input type="button" value="again!"><br>
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<span class="messageanimate message">
    notice me!
</span>

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<div class="messageanimate message block">
    notice me!
</div>

Nam pretium...

CSS

.block {
    padding:10px;
    margin:10px;
    border:1px solid #880;
    border-radius:5px;
    background:#ffd;
}
.message {
    color:#f26522;
}
.messageanimate {}

/*
NB: this could probably also be done using css transitions and adding and removing a class with some delay?
*/

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function(){
	messageanimate();
	$('input[type=button]').click(messageanimate);
});
function messageanimate(){
	$('.messageanimate').each(function(){
		var $target = $(this), newstyle = {}, oldstyle = {}, resetstyle = {}, options = {};
		// NB to animate colors, the jQuery-color plugin is needed:
		// https://github.com/jquery/jquery-color
		newstyle = {
			'color':'#f00',
			'borderWidth':'1px',
			'borderColor':'#f00',
			'backgroundColor':'#ffdddd'
//			'textIndent':'10px'
		};

		$.each(newstyle, function(prop,val){
			resetstyle[prop] = '';
			oldstyle[prop] = '';
			try{
				oldstyle[prop] = $target.css(prop);
			}catch(e){
				console.log('cannot read .css(prop):' + prop);
				try{
					oldstyle[prop] = $target.get(0).style[prop];
				}catch(e){
					console.log('cannot read .style[prop]:' + prop);
				}
			}
		});

		console.log(newstyle,oldstyle,resetstyle,options);

		options.complete = function (){
			$(this).css(resetstyle);
		}

 		$target
//			.css(newstyle)
			.delay(500)
			.animate(newstyle,200)
			.animate(oldstyle,200)
			.animate(newstyle,200)
			.animate(oldstyle, options)
		;
	});
}


////////////////////
// including this file does not work so I have to copy-paste its contents below.
// source : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jquery/jquery-color/master/jquery.color.js
// Error:
// Refused to execute script from 
//   'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jquery/jquery-color/master/jquery.color.js' 
//   because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled.
////////////////////

/*!
 * jQuery Color Animations v@VERSION
 * https://github.com/jquery/jquery-color
 *
 * Copyright jQuery Foundation and other contributors
 * Released under the MIT license.
 * http://jquery.org/license
 *
 * Date: @DATE
 */
(function( jQuery, undefined ) {

	var stepHooks = "backgroundColor borderBottomColor borderLeftColor borderRightColor borderTopColor color columnRuleColor outlineColor...