Impressive effects in just a few lines of code

You've got better things to do than to sit and write lines and lines of code to add fade in and fade out effects. jQuery provides you with a few basic animations and the power to create your own custom animations right out of the box. Let's say I wanted to make an image fade into the page:

$('img').fadeIn();

Yep, that's it — one little line of code in which I select my image and then tell it to fade in. We'll see later in the chapter exactly where this line of code will go in your HTML page.