# jQuery Effects

The Effect action uses the jQuery 'effect' method to allow you to perform visual effects on elements on the page. For example, you can drop an element off the page, fade it away, or pulsate/flash it. Lucid provides many different effects in the 'jQuery' popup menu.

To use an effect, choose one from the jQuery popup menu. For example, you may choose 'Pulsate'. The first field to fill is the 'Duration' field, and this dictate how long the effect will run for. The Duration field is in milliseconds, so if you which for the animation to run for 1 second, you would enter '1000'. You also need to drag from the action to the element to effect, or select it from the popup menu.
Now you can start to add options, in the case of 'Pulsate' you may choose 'times' from the '+' popup menu, this is simply the number of time an item will pulsate within the duration of the animation.