Question

I have some span tags:

<span data-w="560"></span>
<span data-w="340"></span>
<span data-w="120"></span>

I have a jQuery code to animate each span to reach a target width preset inthe data-w attribute:

$(document).ready(function(){

    $('span').each(function() {

        $(this).animate({width: $(this).attr('data-w') + 'px'}, 1000);

    });

});

here everything works just fine.

Now I want to make each span animate alone, and not all of the spans together.

How to do it? may be with queue()? how?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Mayby you can create your own queue:

var spanW_loop = 0;
var spanW_size = jQuery('#spanW span[data-w]').length;

    function animateSpanW() {
    var spanWidth = jQuery('#spanW').children('span[data-w]').eq(spanW_loop).attr('data-w');
        jQuery('#spanW').children('span[data-w]').eq(spanW_loop).animate({width: spanWidth + 'px'}, 1000, function() {
            spanW_loop += 1;
            if(spanW_loop < spanW_size) {
                animateSpanW();
            }
        });
    }

animateSpanW();

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