[jQuery] Re: Animate Variable Concatenate Help

$(this).animate({ width: mywidth + "px" });

think:

var newwidth = {
"width": mywidth + "px"
}

Regards

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, paper_robots <mrestorff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get the width of an element, animate it bigger, then
> shrink it back to normal size on hover. Here's my function:
>
>
> $('a.slider').hover(function(){
>                var mywidth = $(this).width();
>                $(this).animate({width: "240px"});
>        }, function(){
>                $(this).animate({width: +mywidth+px"});
>        });
>
>
> The line I'm having trouble with is:
> $(this).animate({width: +mywidth+px"});
>
> I know its not concatenated right, but I tried a few ways and couldn't
> get it to work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advanced!
>