jquery “animate” variable value

Question

I need to \"animate\" a variable with jquery.

Example: The variable value is 1. The value should be 10 after 5 seconds. It should be increase \"smoothl

Answer 1

This should work for you:

var a = 1;
var b = setInterval(function() {
  console.log(a);
  a++;
  if (a == 10) { clearInterval(b); }
}, 500);