How do I rotate an image in Javascript or CSS

Question

I am creating a simple game.

I want to use jQUERY to rotate the joints making it move. I am using .animate ( http://api.jquery.com/animate/ ) to animate CSS properti

Answer 1

Not ideal, but you could make separate image files for each rotated state of the image, then use JavaScript to change or CSS to change background-image: url('XXX'); Once the images have loaded (you could even pre-load them with JS), the animation between them should be very fast.