If you remove the "transition" class from the buckets, the js will not trigger. There is probably a clever way to do a css-only animated menu or slide out, but I don't know it. I stick to js for these ...

Sort of. The easy thing to do would be to have an IMG tag that's display: none, and when you need to display the image, set it to display: inline and change the src to the url of the image you want to ...