jQuery Puff Effect

Description:

The Puff effect can be used with show/hide/toggle. This creates a puff effect by scaling the element up and hiding it at the same time.

Syntax:

Here is the simple syntax to use this effect:

selector.hide|show|toggle( "puff", {arguments}, speed );

Parameters:

Here is the description of all the arguments:

mode: The mode of the effect. Can be "show" or "hide". Default is hide.
percent: The percentage to scale to. Default is 150.

Example:

Following is a simple example a simple showing the usage of this effect:

<html>
<head>
<title>the title</title>
   <script type="text/javascript" 
   src="/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" 
   src="/jquery/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
   
    $(document).ready(function() {

      $("#hide").click(function(){
         $(".target").hide( "puff", 
                     { }, 2000 );
      });

      $("#show").click(function(){
         $(".target").show( "puff", 
                      {percent:100}, 2000 );
      });

   });
   </script>
   <style>
      p {
           background-color:#bca;
           width:200px; 
           border:1px solid green; 
        }
     div{ width:100px; 
            height:100px; 
            background:red;  
        }
  </style>
</head>
<body>

   <p>Click on any of the buttons</p>
   <button id="hide"> Hide </button>
   <button id="show"> Show</button> 
  
   <div class="target">
   </div>
  
</body>
</html>

To understand it in better way you can Try it yourself.