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# YUI Library Examples: Animation Utility: Animation Easing

# Animation Utility: Animation Easing

This demonstrates how to apply an Easing to a YUI Animation instance. Click the button to begin the demo.

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## Animation with Easing

The YUI Animation Utility includes an Easing feature, which allows you to customize how the animation behaves.

For this example, we will animate the width of the `<div>` element named `demo`.

Add a little style so that we can see the animation in action:

<style type="text/css"> #demo { background:#ccc; overflow:hidden; /* so we can animate to zero width */ width:200px; } </style>

Create the `demo` element and a button to run the animation:

<div id="demo">Demo</div> <button id="demo-run">run</button>

Now we create an instance of `YAHOO.util.Anim`, passing it the element we wish to animate, and the style attribute(s) to be animated. The duration and easing arguments are optional. In this case, we will use 1 second as the duration, and the `easeOut` easing, which will slow the animation gradually as it nears the end:

<script type="text/javascript"> var attributes = { width: { to: 0 } }; var anim = new YAHOO.util.Anim('demo', attributes, 1, YAHOO.util.Easing.easeOut); </script>

The final step is to call the `animate` method on our instance to start the animation. The button will be the trigger that begins the animation sequence:

<script type="text/javascript"> YAHOO.util.Event.on('demo-run', 'click', function() { anim.animate(); }); </script>

This is an example of the Easing feature of the YUI Animation Utility.

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### Animation Utility Examples:

- Basic Animation
- Animation Easing
- Animating From a Given Value
- Using Custom Units for an Animation
- Animating Multiple Attributes
- Chaining Animations Using `onComplete`
- Animating Colors
- Animating Motion
- Animating Along a Curved Path
- Animated Scrolling
- Animating multiple elements with StyleSheet (included with examples for StyleSheet Utility)
- Glowing Button (included with examples for Button Control)
- Complex Application (included with examples for Layout Manager)

### More Animation Utility Resources:

- User's Guide (external)
- API Documentation
- Cheat Sheet PDF (external)

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