How do you fadeIn and animate at the same time?

Question

Using jQuery I'm creating a basic 'tooltip' animation so that the tooltip will appear in a little animation in which it fades into view as well as move vertically.

So far I have this:

$('.tooltip').fadeIn('slow');
$('.tooltip').animate({ top: "-10px" }, 'slow');

Doing it that way or this way:

$('.tooltip').fadeIn('slow').animate({ top: "-10px" }, 'slow');

The animations will run one at a time, the fade in first and then the vertical animation. Is there a way to have it do both at the same time?

Answer 1

$('.tooltip').animate({ opacity: 1, top: "-10px" }, 'slow');

However, this doesn't appear to work on display: none elements (as fadeIn does). So, you might need to put this beforehand:

$('.tooltip').css('display', 'block');
$('.tooltip').animate({ opacity: 0 }, 0);

Answer 2

Another way to do simultaneous animations if you want to call them separately (eg. from different code) is to use queue. Again, as with Tinister's answer you would have to use animate for this and not fadeIn:

$('.tooltip').css('opacity', 0);
$('.tooltip').show();
...

$('.tooltip').animate({opacity: 1}, {queue: false, duration: 'slow'});
$('.tooltip').animate({ top: "-10px" }, 'slow');