I am trying to get a link to load with the text cut off at a certain width. Then when the user hovers over, it shows the full content of the anchor tag. I have a fiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/GCXsq/564/ but it initially shows the full content of the link, and it also makes the link width 0 on hover.
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Your main problem was that your hovering element had no (elemental) children, so you were always animating from 0 width.