jquery “animate” variable value

Question

I need to \"animate\" a variable with jquery.

Example: The variable value is 1. The value should be 10 after 5 seconds. It should be increase \"smoothl

Answer 1

Use setInterval :

percentage = 0;
startValue = 1;
finishValue = 5;
currentValue = 1;
interval = setInterval(function(){ 
   percentage ++; 
   currentValue = startValue + ((finishValue - startValue) * percentage) / 100;
   doSomething(currentValue);
   if (percentage == 100) clearInterval(interval);
 }, duration / 100)

function doSomething(val) { /*process value*/}