Calling "-1760px" will animate the property relatively another -1760 pixels to the left.
If you want to animate it to the absolute position: -1760, do: .animate({ left: -1760 }) jQuery 1.1.2 only supported passing in numbers for animations, so seeing it work for you is quite surprising. --John On 9/10/07, Tingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There seems to be an animate bug with jQuery 1.2. Try animating the > css left value of a relatively or absolutely positioned element. For > instance, I have an object with a css left value of "-880px". When I > call .animate( {left:"-1760px"} ,300, function(){ alert( $ > (this).css('left')}), the callback will result in "-2640px", not > "-1760px" like it should be. > > The above code worked in version 1.1.2, not 1.2. > >