In this article I will show how to glow a message highlight for 2 seconds using highlight effect implemented in jQuery UI. We can set color and time duration for the effect.
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>highlight textusing JQuery UI</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
<style>
#toggle {
width: 225px;
height: 100px;
background: #e4e0e0;
padding: 15px 15px 1px 15px;
margin-top: 10px;
border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,.1);
}
.btn {
width: 150px;
height: 50px;
background: #00BCD4;
border-style: solid;
border-color: white;
color: white;
}
</style>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#btnShow").click(function () {
$("#toggle").toggle("highlight",2000);
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body style="border: 1px solid gray;width: 500px;padding: 15px 15px 10px 15px;">
<button class="btn" id="btnShow">Click button to highlight message.</button>
<div id="toggle">
Thehighlight effect hides or shows an element by animating its background colorfirst.
</div>
</body>
</html>