Question

It is hard for me to explain so I will just demonstrate what I am trying to do:

This work fine:

$(this).animate({ top: 200 }, 500);

I’m trying to replace the ‘top’ value by a variable

like this:

var x = 'top';    
if (condition) { x = 'left'; }    
$(this).animate({ x: 200 }, 500);

But this fail.

Answer 1

You can try this.

var pos = {'top':200};    
if (condition) { pos = {'left':200}; }    
$(this).animate(pos, 500);