jquery: can i animate the position:absolute to position:relative?

Question

i have a bunch of images that are positioned absolutely, i want to be able to click a button and have them all animate to where they would normally be on the page if they had th

Answer 1

I like Tatu's solution but found this reusable code to be better for my purposes:

function specialSlide(el, properties, options){
    //http://stackoverflow.com/a/2202831/
    el.css({
        visibility: 'hidden', // Hide it so the position change isn't visible
        position: 'static'
    });
    var origPos = el.position();
    el.css({
        visibility: 'visible', // Unhide it (now that position is 'absolute')
        position: 'absolute',
        top: origPos.top,
        left: origPos.left
    }).animate(properties, options);
}

Let's say I want to slide $('#elementToMove') to a new position, and I want it to take 1000 milliseconds to move. I can call this:

var props = {'top' : 200, 'left' : 300};
var options = {'duration': 1000};
specialSlide($('#elementToMove'), props, options);