# jQuery UI Transfer Effect

## Overview

Transfers the outline of an element to another element. Very useful when trying to visualize interaction between two elements.

The transfer element iself has the class name "ui-effects-transfer", and needs to be styled by you, for example by adding a background or border.

### Dependencies

- Effects Core

### Example

- Demo
- View Source

Clicking on the green element transfers to the other.

    $("div").click(function () {
          var i = 1 - $("div").index(this);
          $(this).effect("transfer", { to: $("div").eq(i) }, 1000);
    });

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
      <link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
      <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script>
      <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
      <style type="text/css">
      div.green { margin: 0px; width: 100px; height: 80px; background: green; border: 1px solid black; position: relative; }
      div.red { margin-top: 10px; width: 50px; height: 30px; background: red; border: 1px solid black; position: relative; }
      .ui-effects-transfer { border: 2px solid black; }

    </style>

      <script>
      $(document).ready(function() {

    $("div").click(function () {
          var i = 1 - $("div").index(this);
          $(this).effect("transfer", { to: $("div").eq(i) }, 1000);
    });

      });
      </script>
    </head>
    <body style="font-size:62.5%;">
      <div class="green"></div>
    <div class="red"></div>

    </body>
    </html>

## Arguments

- ### className

  Type:
    String

  Optional class name the transfer element will receive.

- ### to

  Type:
    String

  jQuery selector, the element to transfer to.