Basic jQuery animation: Elipsis (three dots sequentially appearing)

Question

What I need:

I need an animated elipisis (...), one dot appearing after the other. The animation needs to loop. I\'d like to achieve this via jQuery

Animation

Answer 1

I've written a simple JQuery plugin for it: https://github.com/karbachinsky/jquery-DotAnimation

//
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$(function () {
    // Animation will start at once
    var $el = $('.element');

    $el.dotAnimation({
        speed: 300,
        dotElement: '.',
        numDots: 3
    });
});

JSFiddle example: https://jsfiddle.net/bcz8v136/