jQuery: screen effects with animations

With jQuery we can create impressive screen effects using animations. In this post I'm going to show you how to create a simple screen effect with animations, ideal for an introduction to your web site. First of all, we need a basic markup structure to start with. Some of these elements have been inserted in the markup just for the sake of the example. You can obviously insert them with jQuery:

<div id="center-screen">
  <h1>Screen Title</h1>
</div>

<div id="screen">
 <div id="left-screen"></div>
 <div id="right-screen"></div>
</div>

A couple of CSS rules to display them as we want:

html, body {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 font: 100% Arial, sans-serif;
 overflow: hidden;
}

#screen {
 width: 100%;
 height: 200px;
 position: absolute;
 top: 50%;
 margin-top: -100px;
 z-index: 0;
}

#left-screen {
 width: 0px;
 height: 100%;
 background: #d40;
 position: absolute;
 top: 0;
 left: 0;
 z-index: 1;
}

#right-screen {
 width: 0px;
 height: 100%;
 background: #d40;
 position: absolute;
 top: 0;
 right: 0;
 z-index: 1;
}

#center-screen {
 width: 750px;
 height: 200px;
 position: absolute;
 display: none;
 top: 50%;
 left: 50%;
 margin: -100px 0 0 -375px;
 color: #fff;
 background: #f50;
 text-align: center;
 z-index: 2;
 line-height: 200px;
}

#center-screen h1 {
 font-size: 100px;
 font-weight: normal;
 text-transform: uppercase;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 margin: 0;
}

#center-screen h1.title {
 width: 100%;
 height: 200px;
 position: absolute;
 top: 50%;
 left: 0;
 margin: -100px 0 0 0;
 text-align: center;
 z-index: 3;
 line-height: 200px;
 font-size: 100px;
}

Now jQuery:

$(document).ready(function() {

  $('#left-screen, #right-screen').animate({
    width: '51%'
  }, 5000, function() {
  
  
    $('#center-screen').fadeIn(2000).animate({
      width: '100%',
      height: '100%',
      top: 0,
      left: 0,
      margin: 0,
      fontSize: '200px'
   }, 1000, function() {
   
       
     $(this).find('h1').addClass('title').end().animate({
       opacity: '0.5',
       fontSize: '100px'
       
     }, 1000);
   
   
   });
  
  
  });

});

I've tested this code in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera, that is, in all standard-compliant browsers. Please let me know how IE renders it. You can see the demo below.

Demo

Live demo