A web application utilized Bootstrap, featuring a toggle navigation for the sidebar drawer/navigation that was supposed to be animated by default. However, there appeared to be no animation happening. To address this issue, the following CSS code was implemented:
.navbar-collapse {
width: 0;
opacity: 0;
transition: width 0.3s ease;
}
.navbar-collapse.expanded-menu.in {
width: 95%;
opacity: 1;
}
While this code worked when expanding the sidebar, it failed to produce the desired effect when closing it. Even applying jQuery did not provide a solution.
$('body').on('click', '.navbar-toggle', function() {
$('.expanded-menu.in').animate({"width":"95%"}, 500);
});
$('body').on('click', '.close', function() {
$('.navbar-toggle').click();
$('.expanded-menu').animate({"width":"0px"}, 500);
});
The challenge remained on how to forcefully apply animation or sliding effects in such situations using jQuery/CSS.
Note: Removing the opacity from the CSS allowed the sliding effect to work on the fiddle example. However, the same approach did not yield results in the web application, prompting the search for alternative methods to achieve the desired animation/sliding effect when traditional CSS/jQuery techniques fall short.