jquery animate for element attributes not style

Question

ASAIK jquery animate function accepts style properties only. but i want to animate the attributes of an element. consider a SVG element rectangle

Answer 1

I would try something like this

in the script :

var myElemX = $('.myElement').attr('x');
var myElemY = $('.myElement').attr('y');
$("#rect1").animate({
    left: myElemX+'px',
    top:  myElemY+'px'
}, 1500 );