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Animation and Easing Effects

METHOD DESCRIPTION RETURN

VALUE

animate(

css

[, duration]

[, easing]

[, function()]

)

Animates an element’s styles, from the styles an

element begins with, to the styles specifi ed in an

object literal provided to the fi rst argument. At

the time of this writing, only CSS properties with

numeric values are supported. Animating color tran-

sitions is supported with additional plugin support.

The easing argument accepts two possible

values using the default easing library, "linear"

and "swing". However, you may download and

enable a plethora of additional easing options,

which are documented later in this appendix.

The optional callback function is executed once the

animation has completed. this refers to the

element animated.

jQuery

animate(

css,

options

)

Animates an element’s styles, from the styles an

element begins with to the styles specifi ed in an

object literal provided to the fi rst argument. See the

“Animation Options” section later in this appendix.

jQuery

clearQueue

([queue])

Removes from the queue all items that have not

been executed yet. If a queue is specifi ed, only that

queue is cleared.

jQuery

delay(duration

[, queue])

Sets a timer to delay the execution of subsequent

items in the queue. If a queue is specifi ed, the delay

is initiated on that queue item.

jQuery

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