jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques - Index of

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Managing Animations
Like most of the methods that jQuery makes available to us, the effect,
or animation, methods can be chained together in sequence, like this:
jQuery(elements).fadeIn().slideDown()
When several animation methods, such as fadeIn(), and so on, are chained
together and called on the same element or collection of elements, they are
placed into a queue to be executed one after the other in series rather than
all executing simultaneously in parallel. The standard animation queue created
for an animated element is called fx, although custom queues can easily
be created.
jQuery gives us several methods that make working with and manipulating an element's fx
queue extremely easy. These methods include:
clearQueue()
delay()
dequeue()
queue()
stop()
The techniques that we'll learn in this chapter include:
Viewing the items in an element's queue
Counting the items in an element's queue
Preventing queued effects from executing
Delaying the start of the next effect in the queue