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"); >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-ui@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-ui+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---