Bootstrap collapse animation not smooth
Jerking happens when the parent div ".collapse" has padding.
Padding goes on the child div, not the parent. jQuery is animating the height, not the padding.
Example:
<div class="form-group">
<a for="collapseOne" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseOne" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne">+ addInfo</a>
<div class="collapse" id="collapseOne" style="padding: 0;">
<textarea class="form-control" rows="4" style="padding: 20px;"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<a for="collapseTwo" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseTwo" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne">+ subtitle</a>
<input type="text" class="form-control collapse" id="collapseTwo">
</div>
Fiddle Showing Both
Hope this helps.
In case anybody else comes across this problem, as I just have, the answer is to wrap the content which you want to collapse inside a div
and collapse the wrapper div rather than the content itself.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<div class="form-group">
<a for="collapseOne" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseOne" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne" class="btn btn-primary">+ addInfo</a>
<div id="collapseOne" class="collapse">
<textarea class="form-control" rows="4"></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<a for="collapseTwo" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseTwo" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne" class="btn btn-info">+ subtitle</a>
<input type="text" class="form-control collapse" id="collapseTwo">
</div>
Adding to @CR Rollyson answer,
In case if you have a collapsible div which has a min-height attribute, it will also cause the jerking. Try removing that attribute from directly collapsible div. Use it in the child div of the collapsible div.
<div class="form-group">
<a for="collapseOne" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseOne" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne">+ Not Jerky</a>
<div class="collapse" id="collapseOne" style="padding: 0;">
<textarea class="form-control" rows="4" style="padding: 20px;">No padding on animated element. Padding on child.</textarea>
</div>
</div>
Fiddle