jQuery Random Link Color Animations
We all know that we can set a link's :hover color, but what if we want to add a bit more dynamism and flair? jQuery allows you to not only animate to a specified color, but also allows you to animate to a random color.
The jQuery JavaScript
$(document).ready(function() {
var randomLinks = $('a.random-color');
var original = randomLinks.css('color');
randomLinks.hover(function() { //mouseover
var col = 'rgb(' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 256)) + ',' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 256)) + ',' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 256)) + ')';
$(this).animate({
'color': col,
'paddingLeft': '20px'
},1000);
},function() { //mouseout
$(this).animate({
'color': original,
'paddingLeft': '0'
},500);
});
});
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Nicely done David! But I think you should do 256 since – i believe – (Math.floor(Math.random() * 255)) will never return 255, just 0- 254.
Nice idea David!
The animation is a little slow though…
Cool idea. I think that there should be some constraints on the colours though as sometimes the link turned off-white.
var col = ‘rgb(‘ + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 51)) + ‘,’ + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 51)) + ‘,’ + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 153)) + 51′)’;
for example will always (I think) be a colour between #000033 and #3333CC
@Benjamin Sterling: Good point. Updated.
@James: Speed can be adjusted, so no worries there.
@Clinton Montague: This is a great consideration and one I looked at when developing. I decided to leave it out because it’s a “per site” issue.
Hi David.
Its is simply superb.
Great effect David! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Does anyone know of a way to make this compatible with IE 7 by chance?
@John Smith: Works for me!
Cheers David – figured out my issue – I just had a conflicting css definition that I somehow glazed over.
Hi, just suggestion: call
stop()on element before starting new animation:$(this).stop().animate({ ... });It will eliminate dancing menu item after multiple
mouseover/mouseout…Hi David, sorry this is such a backward question but can you tell me how I can use this code with my html. I don’t mean within my document, but referencing, say, a js file on my site to get this effect to take place?
Thanks a lot.
hello,
i’m wondering how it would be possible to limit the number of colors to a defined list. if i only want to have 7 set colors, how would i go about defining those 7 colors?
thanks in advance!
Well, this is just great!
I’m trying to figure out how to modify this so that every link on a page, when loaded, has a random background color. With a little padding on each link, it will look kind of lego-ish or block pixel-y or something, which would be rad. Any ideas?
Hi there,
unfortunately it does not work in combination with a slide out panel (based on jQ) in FF and Chrome. Does anybody know about that and is there anything I can do to make it work?????
Thanks in advance.
Hardy
Berlin, Germany
nice code man! thx for sharing
@theorie
you can use this:
colors =
[
“#37C78F”,
“#C9DE55”,
“#FF4D38”,
“#CC2249”,
“#380C2A”
]
var col = colors[Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length)];
hi, i want to create a random spinning roulette or maybe something like a slot machine code, sp that the user will press “go” and the different options (which i’ll enter) will begin to spin and then stop on a random one. any help ?
Nice Work. But If we hover it fast over all the links. It is not working in the way that it pretend to be.
Thank you.. Great stuff..
Hi,
if I may, I’ve work on a plugin to do that : http://www.blog.kicoe.net/jquery/mon-premier-plugin-randomizecolor-pour-des-couleurs-aleatoires-au-survol-3599
Hope it’ll help
Nice Algorithm! I will use it on our page.