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// This fix was hard-won - // just doing .css(property, '') doesn't work! $old.get(0).style["margin-left"] = "" $old.get(0).style["-webkit-transform"] = ""

What wasn't working and how this lines solved the problem?

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I was wondering about that too. It seems like they're trying to remove an attribute... which is what $old.removeAttr('margin-left') is meant for.

$old.removeAttr("margin-left") doesn't work for some reason (in Chrome), hence I went for the get(0) way. I'd be interested to know why it doesn't work...

Oh, hah, sorry - that's manipulating styles. Though I'm not sure why .css('attr', '') didn't work. I've been diving into the depths of jQuery more lately though, and every time I do I find new and... interesting things... my suggestion is to read the source. There are some wonky things in there that'll explain a lot of weird, edge-casey behavior.

Hi, I wrote that line. I was doing my initial testing on Chrome and css() wasn't removing the attributes properly, which was causing problems with the animation.

Oh, Thank you. how weird..

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