You can also cause the illusion of the contents sticking as it grows by 
messing with the scrollTop as it's animated. I don't know specifically 
how one might do that with jQuery though.
Hmmm... maybe something like {scrollTop:"stick"} is plugin worthy.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)

Jeffrey Kretz wrote:
> If your div is absolutely positioned, you could do this a couple of
> different ways:
>
> 1) Set the bottom position of the div to a specific point.  Then animating
> the height will cause it to grow upward.
> 2) Animate the top position of the div and the height at the same time.
>
> If you're not absolutely positioning your div, then I don't really know how
> you expect a div to animate "upward".
>
> JK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jquery-ui@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Daniel Friesen
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 9:48 PM
> To: jquery-ui@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [jquery-ui] Re: Grow Div Upward
>
>
> All jQuery does is animate the height css value.
> That kind of functionality is beyond the scope of jQuery.
>
> How the animation looks (animate up/down) is dependent on the browser, 
> in other words the other css applied to your div.
>
> Perhaps you question is better suited to the main jQuery list.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
>
> Tim wrote:
>   
>> Using the animate function I only seem to be able to grow a div down,
>> instead I'd like to grow the div upwardly
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> $(this).animate({height:'+=400px'},"slow");
>>
>>     
>>   
>>     
>
>
>
>
> >
>   

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