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Category: Web 2.0



jQuery Color Animations: Adding RGBA alpha channel support

// Published 7 October 2008 //

I like using — it's freaking awesome to be able to use alpha channels directly with a given color, without having to mess with the CSS opacity settings. I also make heave use of pretty sufficient out-of-the-box support for CSS-based animations and transitions. Using jQuery plugin for , the same good old $.animate() calls can be made to work seamlessly with CSS color properties such as backgroundColor, borderColor, outlineColor, color etc. The catch: RGBA colors are ignored. I tried using the but found two drawbacks: it had its own $.colorBlend() method rather than working seamlessly with $.animate() — which I didn't particularly mind — but it also caused sustained flickerings in my test cases (yes, even though the change log reported that many flickering bugs had been eliminated) and it doesn't technically work with an RGBA alpha channel but uses CSS opacity properties behind the scenes, which was not what I wanted.

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// Published 05 Feb 2006 //

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
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