jquery callbacks being called multiple times

Question

When I use the fade/slide/animate functions in jQuery the callback gets called multiple times for each element the effect is applied to. This is by design of course. I jus

Answer 1

That would produce the alert when the fadeOut on the last element was called. That would not necessarily be the last fadeOut.

var numDivs = $('div').length;
$('div').fadeOut(1000, function() {
  if( --numDivs > 0 ) return;
  alert('this is the final fadeout to complete');
});

Check it out on JSFiddle