This got me curious and after a little digging I find a plugin called animateToClass
http://igorvieira.com/blog/animate-to-class-en It seems to be what you're looking for. cheers, ~amy On Jun 12, 2:04 pm, DiggityDan <edn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to Jquery and I was wondering if this feature exists anywhere. > > the animate() function where instead of parameters you pass in a > classname and it reads the parameters from available css definitions. > > I am trying to keep my css specifics out of my javascript files.