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    copied!<p>I'm trying to create 3 buttons (image is a background image) that animate smoothly when doing a mouseover.</p> <p>When I'm using the following html, css and js, the result is a jquery animation where the animation just jumps to the result in stead of creating a smooth animation towards the result.</p> <p>See the result at: <a href="http://infinitize.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://infinitize.com</a>, currently only the first button is animated.</p> <p>CSS:</p> <pre><code>/*-- HOMEPAGE --*/ #buttons {margin-top:60px;} #buttons a {display:inline-block;width:160px;border-bottom:none;color:#4b4f52;text-shadow:0 1px 0 #fff;font-size:20px;padding-top:180px;text-align:center;} .bg-img-home {background:transparent url(&lt;r:assets:url title="bg-img-home" /&gt;) no-repeat;} #webdesign {background-position:0px 0px;} </code></pre> <p>HTML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div id="buttons" class="span-24 last"&gt; &lt;div class="span-3"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="webdesign" class="span-5 bg-img-home"&gt;&lt;a href="#" id="jump-webdesign"&gt;WebDesign&lt;br /&gt;Web Development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="span-2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="ecommerce" class="span-5 bg-img-home"&gt;&lt;a href="#" id="jump-ecommerce"&gt;E-Commerce Solutions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="span-2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="openbravo" class="span-5 bg-img-home"&gt;&lt;a href="#" id="jump-openbravo"&gt;OpenBravo&lt;br /&gt;ERP/POS solutions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="span-2 last"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Script:</p> <pre><code>$(document).ready(function(){ $("#jump-webdesign").hover(function(){ $("#webdesign") .animate({backgroundPosition: '0px -10px'},200).animate({backgroundPosition:'0px 0px'},200) }); }); </code></pre>
 

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