Jquery queueing animations

Question

I have several animations that I want to perform on different objects in the dom.

I want them to occur in order.

I do not want to do it like this:

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you don't want to use the method you described. If its purely from an organizational standpoint you don't have to use anonymous functions

function showFirst() {
  $('#first').show(800, showSecond);
}

function showSecond() {
  $('#second').show(800, showThird);
}

function showThird() {
  $('#third').show(800);
}

function startAnimation() {
  showFirst();
}