Useful properties of the jQuery object

The jQuery object contains a couple of properties that we can set which can be useful when creating animations. The jQuery (or $) object contains an fx property, which itself contains two properties related to animations which we can manipulate.

This fx object is not to be confused with the fx queues that are created by default for any element that has more than one animation method called on it in a chain. These individual fx queues do not contain the same properties that the jQuery fx property contains.

Globally disabling animations

One property of fx that we can set is the off property. This property contains a Boolean that is set to false by default, but which we can set to true to globally disable all animations ...

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