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jquery animate mutiple dom elements at same time

Sam Deering
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Just a quick look at using mutiple selectors in jQuery to say animate mutiple dom elements at same time. Remember the animate function is asynchronous in the fact it can execute at the same time on mutiple elements.

http://api.jquery.com/multiple-selector/

Multiple Selector (“selector1, selector2, selectorN”)

//does not work
$('#content', '#sidebar-grab').animate(

//works
$('#content,#sidebar-grab').animate(

Sam Deering has 15+ years of programming and website development experience. He was a website consultant at Console, ABC News, Flight Centre, Sapient Nitro, and the QLD Government and runs a tech blog with over 1 million views per month. Currently, Sam is the Founder of Crypto News, Australia.

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