jQuery | animated Selector with Example

The animated is an inbuilt selector in jQuery which is used to select the element that is currently animated.

Syntax:

$(:animated)

Return Value: This selector returns the element which is currently animated.

Below example illustrates the animated selector in jQuery:

Example:

<html> 
    <head> 
        <script src= 
        "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"> 
        </script> 
          
        <!-- jQuery code to show the working of this method -->
        <script> 
            $(document).ready(function() { 
                function aniDiv() { 
                    $("#d3").animate({ 
                        height: "50%" 
                    }, "slow"); 
                    $("#d3").animate({ 
                        height: "90%" 
                    }, "slow", aniDiv); 
                } 
                aniDiv(); 
                $("#d3").click(function() { 
                    $(":animated").css("background-color", "green"); 
                }); 
            }); 
        </script> 
        <style> 
            #d1, #d2, #d3 { 
                padding: 10px; 
            } 
            #d1 { 
                width: 100px; 
                float: right; 
                background: lightblue; 
                margin-right: 80px; 
                margin-left: 120px; 
            } 
            #d2 { 
                width: 100px; 
                float: right; 
                margin-right: 100px; 
                background: yellow; 
            } 
            #d3 { 
                width: 100px; 
                background: red; 
            } 
        </style> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
        <div> 
            <!-- this div element will get selected -->
            <div id="d1" >This is 3.</div> 
            <div id="d2" >This is 2.</div> 
            <div id="d3" >This is 1.</div> 
        </div> 
    </body> 
</html>                     

Output:
Before clicking on the div element (Red color):

After clicking on the div element and color of the div will change:

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