As I’m sure you know, it’s very easy to set a different colour for a link when a user hovers over it using the :hover pseudo class – it’s used pretty much everywhere.
However, wouldn’t it be nice if instead of jumping sharply from one colour to another, the colours subtly fades from one to another and back again? Fortunately I have written a very simple plugin to do just that!
This plugin subtly fades from the default colour of the element to the specified colour when a user hovers over it, and back again when the user leaves the element.
Demonstration
EXAMPLE LINK 1
EXAMPLE LINK 2 – SLOW FADE BACK
Using the plugin
This plugin required the color animations official jquery plugin, available at http://plugins.jquery.com/project/color. This must be included on the page before the plugin is included.
To use the plugin, simple use the following code:
$('a').hoverFadeColor();
This will make all the links on a page fade to the color specified in the css:hover style and back again.
The options are as follows:
- color:
- fadeTospeed (default 300): the rate at which the element fades to the hover color
- fadeFromspeed (default 700) is the rate at which the element fades to the default color
Download
Version 1.1. Released 29 June 2011
If you liked this article you might like to read the follow-up article, Detecting the :hover css selector style in jQuery/javascript.
hi how are ya.
Im using this in my website, any idea to implement it in divs? cool would be !
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Do you mean have the entire div fade?
I’m pretty new to javascript coding. So should I include the jquery “color” script, and then your code in the head of the document? And then place:
$(‘a’).hoverFadeColor();
somewhere in the body of the document BUT before any links? is that right?
Close – please have a look at the jQuery tutorials to get started.
Hi, im using this too, but some time function is stopping , color not fade .Maybe you know how eliminate this problem
Can you please give me an example of it not working, and the browser used?
When you hover out from a visited link, the visited link color is replaced by the default link color. Is there any way to work around this?
Hi! Very useful script, thx! Is it compatible also with IE8? It seems not…
Thank you mate, I’ve been looking for something like this for ages!