How come $('html').animate() only works in IE and $('body').animate() is needed for Chrome/Safari?

Question

I have to use $(\'html, body\').animate() to make the snippet fully cross-browser compatible, but this is inconvenient when chaining animations as they will som

Answer 1

You should never even do $('html').animate since you should only animate content and the html tag is not a content tag. Stick with $('body').animate and it should work in all browsers.