Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I ran into the same issue.
On Sep 3, 4:24 pm, "emmecin...@gmail.com" <emmecin...@gmail.com> wrote: > The online documentation for "slideDown" and "slideUp" says that only > the height is affected by those routines. That claim is false: the > value of "display" is also changed, and for me that's a problem. > > I have a div that's set up with "position: absolute" and > "display:inline". I want that box to appear in the layout relative to > its surrounding content, and that's the simplest way I know to do > that. I also want the box to be animated. I do not, however, want > jQuery to touch my "display" value, because setting it to "block" > breaks the layout completely. > > Looking at the (not trivial to understand) code, it *appears* that the > original value of the "display" attribute is saved, or rather that the > code attempts to save it. However, that's not working for me: my div > is definitely display:inline to start off, but a call to "slideUp" or > "slideDown" always leaves it either "display: none" or "display: > block".
