About specialEasing. If you're trying to animate font size using special per-property easing it won't work. For example: $("span").animate({ font-size:'2em' }, { duration: 1000, specialEasing: { 'font-size': 'special' } }); A conflict is between 5328 var name = p.replace(rdashAlpha, fcamelCase); and 5618 var specialEasing = this.options.specialEasing && this.options.specialEasing[this.prop]; this.prop will be 'fontSize' instead of 'font-size' but 'fontSize' is not a CSS name. This will work: $("span").animate({ font-size:'2em' }, { duration: 1000, specialEasing: { 'fontSize': 'special' } }); Sorry for my awful english.