Question

Suppose I have this animation that start at some point :

myElement.animate({ top: -currentTempImageX, left: -currentTempImageY }, 5000);

that take 5 seconds to animate! Suppose I want to stop it after 2 seconds. Can I have this control?

Thank you

Answer 1

Yes, you can

myElement.stop();

Link: http://api.jquery.com/stop/

If you want to stop the animation after 2 seconds then use,

setTimeout(function(){myElement.stop();}, 2000);