Dancing Links - That's Jquery Link Nudging

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Login To Blogger Go To > Design > Edit HTML.

and mark the tick box "Expand Widget Templates"

Then, find (CTRL+F) this code in the template.

</head>

And immediately before it, paste this code:

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[

$(document).ready(function()
{
slide("#sliding-navigation", 25, 15, 150, .8);
});

function slide(navigation_id, pad_out, pad_in, time, multiplier)
{
// creates the target paths
var list_elements = navigation_id + " li.sliding-element";
var link_elements = list_elements + " a";

// initiates the timer used for the sliding animation
var timer = 0;

// creates the slide animation for all list elements
$(list_elements).each(function(i)
{
// margin left = - ([width of element] + [total vertical padding of element])
$(this).css("margin-left","-180px");
// updates timer
timer = (timer*multiplier + time);
$(this).animate({ marginLeft: "0" }, timer);
$(this).animate({ marginLeft: "15px" }, timer);
$(this).animate({ marginLeft: "0" }, timer);
});

// creates the hover-slide effect for all link elements
$(link_elements).each(function(i)
{
$(this).hover(
function()
{
$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: pad_out }, 150);
},
function()
{
$(this).animate({ paddingLeft: pad_in }, 150);
});
});
}

//]]>
</script>

Now save your template.

Then, Go To > Design > Page Elements.

Simply add a Gadget of HTML/JavaScript type.

add this code in to it:

<ul id="sliding-navigation">

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 4</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 5</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 6</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 7</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 8</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 9</a></li>

<li class="sliding-element"><a href="#">Link 10</a></li>

</ul>

Now click Save the Template.

Now whenever you want to add this dancing effect to any of your links/images (either in widgets/posts), add this code (class="nudge") to the HTML "a" tag, like this:

<a href="Your URL" class="nudge">Link-Text</a>

and to use images instead of text, use this code:

<a href="Your URL" class="nudge"><img src="Image URL"/></a>

That's it.