HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <script src="/jquery-2.1.4.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="/index.js" type="text/javascript" defer></script>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>

    <div class="animation" style="position: absolute">
        I am the text which is going to be animated
    </div>

</body>
</html>

JS:

/*global $*/

$(".animation").animate({
    left: "+=500"
}, 5000, function () {
    alert("finish!");
});

Taken from here.