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[samyH]

Hey,

 

Hopefully a simple one for someone who's been using gsap more than a day

I'm just trying to cut down on the number of gsap.to animations I'm calling, but I'm unable to get any animation happening when passing evt.currentTarget as it's always null - I also tried evt.target & event.target.id to no avail

 

document.getElementById("menuitem0").addEventListener("mouseenter", hoverIn);

function hoverIn(evt) {
	console.log(evt);
	gsap.to(evt.currentTarget, {
		scale: 1.5,
		color: "white",
		duration: 0.3,
		paused: true,
		ease: "power2.inOut"
	});
}

 

I saw you can do something like this 

let hover1 = gsap.to(menuitem1, {
			scale: 1.5,
			color: "white",
			duration: 0.3,
			paused: true,
			ease: "power2.inOut"
		});

		document.getElementById("menuitem1").addEventListener("mouseenter", () => hover1.play());
		document.getElementById("menuitem1").addEventListener("mouseleave", () => hover1.reverse());

but need to removeEventListener, so needed to break the function out

 

Any help is much appreciated

[GSAP Helper]

It's pretty tough to troubleshoot without a minimal demo - the issue could be caused by CSS, markup, a third party library, your browser, an external script that's totally unrelated to GSAP, etc. Would you please provide a very simple CodePen or CodeSandbox that demonstrates the issue? 

 

Please don't include your whole project. Just some colored <div> elements and the GSAP code is best (avoid frameworks if possible). See if you can recreate the issue with as few dependancies as possible. If not, incrementally add code bit by bit until it breaks. Usually people solve their own issues during this process! If not, then at least we have a reduced test case which greatly increases your chances of getting a relevant answer.

 

Here's a starter CodePen that loads all the plugins. Just click "fork" at the bottom right and make your minimal demo: 

See the Pen aYYOdN by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen

 

If you're using something like React/Next/Nuxt/Gatsby or some other framework, you may find CodeSandbox easier to use. 

 

Once we see an isolated demo, we'll do our best to jump in and help with your GSAP-specific questions. 

[samyH]

Here you go

See the Pen OJEXvvp by samyh-the-encoder (@samyh-the-encoder) on CodePen

[GreenSock]

That's because you set paused: true in your tween So it wasn't running. 

 

I'm not sure exactly what your requirements are, but I think you could simplify things quite a bit like this: 

See the Pen QWxEzrY?editors=0110 by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen

[samyH]

Ah ok that's nice, but how would I remove the hover eventListeners on click?

 

item.addEventListener("mouseenter", () => hover.play());
item.addEventListener("mouseleave", () => hover.reverse());

I thought the hover would have to be it's own function to be able to do that right?

[GreenSock]

7 hours ago, samyH said:

Ah ok that's nice, but how would I remove the hover eventListeners on click?

 

There are many ways to do that. Here's one: 

See the Pen OJERNKP?editors=0010 by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen

[samyH]

Ahhh ok - bloody obvious as always - thanks for helping me out - much appreciated 👍