title: Jquery slideUp() function needed
body: <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  
  
  $(document).ready(function() {      
  
      //Execute the slideShow
      slideShow();
  
  });
  
  function slideShow() {
  
      //Set the opacity of all images to 0
      $('#gallery a').css({opacity: 0.0});
  
      //Get the first image and display it (set it to full opacity)
      $('#gallery a:first').css({opacity: 1.2});
  
  
      //Call the gallery function to run the slideshow, 6000 = change to next image after 6 seconds
      setInterval('gallery()',5000);
  
  }
  
  function gallery() {
  
      //if no IMGs have the show class, grab the first image
      var current = ($('#gallery a.show')?  $('#gallery a.show') : $('#gallery a:first'));
  
      //Get next image, if it reached the end of the slideshow, rotate it back to the first image
      var next = ((current.next().length) ? ((current.next().hasClass('caption'))? $('#gallery a:first') :current.next()) : $('#gallery a:first'));   
  
  
      //Set the fade in effect for the next image, show class has higher z-index
      next.css({opacity: 0.0})
      .addClass('show')
      .animate({opacity: 2.0}, 2500);
  
      //Hide the current image
      current.animate({opacity: 0.0}, 1000)
      .removeClass('show');
  
  
  
  
  }
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;div id="gallery"&gt;
  
      &lt;a href="#" class="show"&gt;
          &lt;image src="" alt="fig1" width="960" height="170" /&gt;
      &lt;/a&gt;
  
      &lt;a href="#"&gt;
          &lt;image src="" alt="fig2" width="960" height="170" /&gt;
      &lt;/a&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can anyone help me to find a way to make this slider slideup() and slidedown() without using a clickfunction? 
  So now it's just fading in and out, but I want to make it that way that the next shown image slides up and pushes the previous away (to the top).
  Thanks a lot</p>