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Is there a better way of achieving this effect?



I have an image thumbnail with a light colored border which, on mouseover, I want to crossfade to a dark colored border. I'm thinking that the easiest way to achieve this would be to fade in a second div with a darker border over the existing one.





Is there a better or different way to fade in a border color change?





Thanks.


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  1. Load the jQuery UI into your page. Included with the core package (if I'm not mistaken; you may need to customize your download package) is the ability to use jQuery's .animate() on color values (and/or transitions between two CSS classes). This is something absent from the core jQuery library out-of-the-box.

    With that, you can just do something as menial as the following:

    // e.g. assuming #foo has default border-color #999999
    $('#foo').on('mouseover', function () {
    $(this).animate({
    borderColor : "#333333"
    });
    });


    Modify according to your interests.

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  2. There are many ways.

    One is through CSS3 transitions. Although not working in IE, you can have it progressively enhanced to modern browsers.

    assuming your div has a class of imageBorder:

    div.imageborder {border-color: #FFFFFF;}
    div.imageBorder:hover {
    border-color: #FF0000;
    -webkit-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
    -ms-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
    transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
    }


    The other way is to use javascript, Here is a jQuery sample:

    $('div.imageBorder').hover(
    function(){
    $(this).animate({
    border-color: '#FF0000',
    },200,function(){});
    },
    function(){
    $(this).animate({
    border-color: '#FFFFFF',
    },200,function(){});
    }
    );


    This will work in IE as well, but at the cost of loading an extra library.

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  3. Put your thumbnail inside a DIV with light colored border (default), later on mouseover find the div and change the style (border-width and border-color), although it is not a fadding style but as user quickly mouseover and mouseout on the image looks like minor fadding effect that is enough i guess. Write your own javascript code to make it faster (jQuery surely gets more time javascript code) .

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  4. Can you apply a CSS3 transition on the border color?

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