jQuery Effects

$(selector).hide() Hide selected elements
$(selector).show() Show selected elements
$(selector).toggle() Toggle (between hide and show) selected elements
$(selector).slideDown() Slide-down (show) selected elements
$(selector).slideUp() Slide-up (hide) selected elements
$(selector).slideToggle() Toggle slide-up and slide-down of selected elements
$(selector).fadeIn() Fade in selected elements
$(selector).fadeOut() Fade out selected elements
$(selector).fadeTo() Fade out selected elements to a given opacity
$(selector).animate() Run a custom animation on selected elements

All the above methods go with following syntax

$(selector).animate({params},[duration],[easing],[callback])

so expect
callback function(if you want)
easing if you want
duration if you want
style status -- final state of the selected element