jquery animate for element attributes not style

Question

ASAIK jquery animate function accepts style properties only. but i want to animate the attributes of an element. consider a SVG element rectangle

Answer 1

just animate the old fashioned way:

you can call animate in a jquery like fashion.

http://jsfiddle.net/wVv9P/7/

function animate($el, attrs, speed) {

    // duration in ms
    speed = speed || 400;

    var start = {}, // object to store initial state of attributes
        timeout = 20, // interval between rendering loop in ms
        steps = Math.floor(speed/timeout), // number of cycles required
        cycles = steps; // counter for cycles left

    // populate the object with the initial state
    $.each(attrs, function(k,v) {
        start[k] = $el.attr(k);
    });

    (function loop() {
        $.each(attrs, function(k,v) {  // cycle each attribute
            var pst = (v - start[k])/steps;  // how much to add at each step
            $el.attr(k, function(i, old) {
                return +old + pst;  // add value do the old one
            });
        });

        if (--cycles) // call the loop if counter is not exhausted
            setTimeout(loop, timeout);
        else // otherwise set final state to avoid floating point values
            $el.attr(attrs);

    })(); // start the loop
}

$('button').on('click', function() {       
    animate(
        $('#rect1'), // target jQuery element
        { x:100, y:300, width:50, height:100 }, // target attributes
        2000 // optional duration in ms, defaults to 400
    );
});