Force jQuery animations to use integer values

Question

Is there a way (keeping forward-compatibility in mind) to force jQuery animations to use only integer values amidst an animation?

I'm animating an element's width.

<div style="width: 25px">...</div>

I look at the element in the inspector while it's in the middle of animating, and often the value has massive granularity decimalwise.

<div style="width: 34.24002943013px">...</div>

It only 'calms down' to integers once it's reached its goal.

<div style="width: 50px">...</div>

Usually I wouldn't bother myself about this as it's obviously functional.

However, in this project it's imperative that I stay pixel-perfect at all times, and I'm afraid using fractional pixel widths (or any other attribute measured in pixels) would render inconsistently between browsers. I know letter-spacing for one does.

Is there a way to make sure jQuery only uses decimal-free values even in the middle of animation?

EDIT: I feel like I should clarify; I'm not just using .animate({width:50}). Most of my animations are jQuery UI -powered .hide()s and .show()s, and the solution I'm looking for should obviously also work with those.

Answer 1

For me this worked in the right way:

$("div").animate({ width: 50}, {
    duration: 1000,
    step: function(now, fx){
        fx.now = parseInt(now);
    }
});​

Answer 2

Something like this?

$("div").animate({ width: 50}, {
  duration: 1000,
  step: function(now, fx){

      var value = parseInt($(this).css("width"));

     $(this).css("width", value);
  }
});​

This way, in each "frame" of the animation, the width value will be parsed into an integer value.

The animation will be less smoother this way, since you're cutting some values, but if your animation is long enough, it won't be even noticed.