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Ryan Swanson
Ryan Swanson

Reputation: 390

change the background-color of multiple elements with setInterval and arrays in jQuery

I need to change the background-color of multiple elements at the same time. I tried several versions of this code:

var indexNumber = 0;

function colorChange(){
var colors = ["#0e76bd", "#aa43a0" ,"#5ad1e3"]; 
//var randColor = colors[Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length)];
$('a, h1, h2, .subhead').animate({'color':colors[indexNumber]}, 1000);
$('.splash, .active').animate({'background-color':colors[indexNumber]}, 1000);
}

setInterval(function() {
colorChange()
indexNumber++
if (indexNumber == 3)
{indexNumber = 0
}}, 1000);

This made the colors change, but rather than all the colors advancing to the next sequence in the array, I get a random result where all elements are different colors.

I want all of my elements to change to the same color at the same time. Is there an easy way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1653

Answers (2)

webkit
webkit

Reputation: 3369

You don't need jquery UI to do this.. use interval and css3 animation if you want to animate:

CSS

a, h1, h2, .subhead, .splash, .active { -webkit-transition:color 1s ease, background-color 1s ease; transition:color 1s ease, background-color 1s ease;}

JS

var _index = 0, colors = ["#0e76bd", "#aa43a0" ,"#5ad1e3"];

setInterval(changeColor, 1000);

function changeColor() {
    $('a, h1, h2, .subhead').css({ 'color': colors[_index] });
    $('.splash, .active').css({'background-color':colors[_index]});
    _index = (_index < colors.length-1) ? _index+1 : 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

dfsq
dfsq

Reputation: 193261

You cannot animate colors using default jQuery animation framework. From the documentation:

All animated properties should be animated to a single numeric value, except as noted below; most properties that are non-numeric cannot be animated using basic jQuery functionality (For example, width, height, or left can be animated but background-color cannot be, unless the jQuery.Color() plugin is used).

So the answer is if you want to use jQuery you should also add jQuery UI animation plugin. Take a look at this demo: http://jsfiddle.net/g3QR3/

Here is the jQuery color plugin.

Or instead you could use CSS transitions, that would not require another plugin.

var indexNumber = 0;

function colorChange() {
    var colors = ["one", "two", "three"];
    $('a, h1, h2, .subhead, .splash, .active').removeClass("one two three").addClass(colors[indexNumber]);
}

setInterval(function () {
    colorChange()
    indexNumber++
    if (indexNumber == 3) {
        indexNumber = 0
    }
}

CSS:

.colors {
    -webkit-transition: color 1s ease;
    transition: color 1s ease;
}
.one {
    color: #0e76bd;
}
...

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/g3QR3/1/

Upvotes: 2

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