How to click a button to animate the paragraph element using jQuery ?

Last Updated : 31 Dec, 2020

In this article, we will click a button to animate the paragraph element using jQuery. To animate the paragraph elements, we use animate() method. The animate() method is used to change the state of the element with CSS style. This method can also be used to change the CSS property to create the animated effect for the selected element.

Syntax:

$(selector).animate({styles}, para1, para2, para3);

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        How to click a button to animate 
        the paragraph element using jQuery? 
    </title> 
  
    <!-- Import jQuery cdn library -->
    <script src= 
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <script> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            $("button").click(function () { 
                $("#GFG").animate({ 
                    opacity: 0.5, 
                    fontSize: "3em", 
                }, 1000); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align: center;"> 
    <h1 style="color: green;"> 
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    </h1> 
  
    <h3> 
        How to click a button to animate 
        the paragraph element using jQuery? 
    </h3> 
  
    <p id="GFG"> 
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    </p> 
  
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</body> 
  
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