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switchClass( remove, add, [duration] )

Switches from the class defined in the first argument to the class defined as second argument, using an optional transition.

Arguments:

remove	String
The CSS class that will be removed.
add	String
The CSS class that will be added.
duration (Optional)	String, Number
A string representing one of the three predefined speeds ("slow", "normal", or "fast") or the number of milliseconds to run the animation (e.g. 1000).

Examples:

Demo
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Switch the class 'highlight' to 'blue' when a paragraph is clicked with a one second transition.

    $("p").click(function () {
      $(this).switchClass("highlight", "blue", 1000);
    });

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
  
  <script src="http://ui.jquery.com/latest/ui/effects.core.js"></script>

  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    
    $("p").click(function () {
      $(this).switchClass("highlight", "blue", 1000);
    });

  });
  </script>
  <style>
  p { margin: 4px; font-size:16px; font-weight:bolder; 
      cursor:pointer; }
  .blue { background: blue; }
  .highlight { background:yellow; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <p class="highlight">Click to switch</p>
  <p class="highlight">to blue</p>
  <p class="highlight">on these</p>
  <p class="highlight">paragraphs</p>
</body>
</html>

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