Out of the box, jQuery comes with basic methods to show and hide elements. There is a live example here of the functions listed in this post.

slideToggle slide the element up/down to hide.show. It handles the toggle state automatically so you don't need to define a separate state boolean.

$("#content").slideToggle("slow");

toggle fades and shrinks the element to the upper left, again toggle state is handled automatically.

$("#content").toggle("slow");

fadeIn and fadeOut perform a fade and collapse/expand the element.

$("#content").fadeIn("slow");
$("#content").fadeOut("slow");

In the above examples the parameter "slow" can also be set to "normal", "fast" or a number in milliseconds.

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