pek,
Try this (untested):
$("<li>testing</li>").hide().insertBefore("#gallery
li:first").slideDown("slow");
Carl
pek wrote:
> First of all, thank you very much for the reply. It is really hard to
> get any reply in this mailing list. This is the third time I'm asking
> something and you are the first to answer.
>
> Unfortunately, I've tried this and it kinda acts weird. Instead of
> wrapping the <li>testing</li> with the effect, it wraps the next
> element, so now the second does the slideDown effect. You can see this
> here:
> http://treazy.com/pek/album/
> Just click previous and watch what happens. Do you know how to work
> around this?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On Jul 3, 10:30 pm, real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This is what you would want to do:
>> $("#gallery li:first").before("<li>testing</
>> li>").hide().slideDown("slow")
>>
>> On Jul 3, 11:51 am, pek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have a small problem when dealing with effects. Warning: Noob
>>> question ahead.
>>>
>>> Currently I have a list of items
>>> <ul id="gallery">
>>> <li>test</li>
>>> <li>test2</li>
>>> </ul>
>>>
>>> alert($("#gallery li:first").html()) will correctly echo "test".
>>> If I want to add a new element before that with a slideDown effect, I
>>> use this line:
>>> $("#gallery li:first").before().html("<li>testing</
>>> li>").hide().slideDown("slow")
>>>
>>> Although this correctly adds the line and smoothly slides it down, now
>>> the list is like this:
>>> <ul id="gallery">
>>> <li style="display: block;">
>>> <li>testing</li>
>>> </li>
>>> <li>test</li>
>>> <li>test2</li>
>>> </ul>
>>>
>>> The extra li with the style is added by jQuery for the effect. This
>>> isn't a problem until you want again to add something before the first
>>> element.
>>> Now alert($("#gallery li:first").html()) incorrectly (well, correctly,
>>> but not what I want anyway) returns "<li>testing</li>" instead of
>>> "testing" which means that if I try to do the same effect with the
>>> same code it will not add before, rather, it will replace it and do
>>> the effect again.
>>>
>>> Any help?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> Panagiotis
>>>
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