title: Slide out Menu Sidebar
body: <p>I am trying to learn how to create a slide out menu. So far I have some basic HTML and CSS. However, I'm not sure of the best approach to write the jQuery. At present, it slides out but will not slide back. Or could I use the CSS Transition?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="side-menu"&gt;
     MENU
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div class="page"&gt;
  
      &lt;a href="#" id="slideMenu"&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-bars"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  
      &lt;p&gt;The Hon. Francis Gillette, in a speech in Hartford, Conn., in 1871, said that there was "in Connecticut, on an average, one liquor shop to every forty voters, and three to every Christian church. In this city, as stated in the _Hartford Times_, recently, we have five hundred liquor shops, and one million eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars were, last year, paid for intoxicating drinks. A cry, an appeal, came to me from the city, a few days since, after this wise: 'Our young men are going to destruction, and we want your influence, counsel, and prayers, to help save them.'"&lt;/p&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My CSS:</p>
  
  <pre><code>div.side-menu {
      width:260px;
      height:400px;
      background:#202020;
      position:absolute;
      left:-260px;
      top:0px;
  }
  
  div.page {
      width:100%; 
      height:100%;
      position:relative;
      top:0;
      left:0px;
      padding:4%;
      padding-top:100px;
      background:#f4f4f4;
  }
  
  
  div.page a {
      display:block;
      width:50px;
      height:50px;
      -o-border-radius: 100%; 
      -webkit-border-radius: 100%; 
      -moz-border-radius: 100%; 
      border-radius: 100%;    
      background:#666;
      position:absolute;
      top:20px;
      left:4%;
      font-size:24px;
      text-align:center;
      text-decoration:none;
      padding-top:7px;
      color:#fff;
      outline:none;   
   }
  
  p {
      color:#555; 
      font-size:18px;
      font-weight:normal;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My jQuery:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;script&gt;
      $(document).ready(function() {
  
          $("a").click(function() {
          $(".page").animate({"left": "260px"},"fast");
          });
  
      });
      &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>