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.