$.fn.animate cannot "start" from any value less than -10000

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On line 6347: return r && r > -10000 ? r : 0;

Essentially, the default start value of an animation can be as low as -10000, otherwise it resets to 0.

I'm using a very long scrollable area (about 15000px), when I slide from -9000px to near the end (say -14000px) it resets to 0 and animated from 0->-14000px, rather than -9000px->-14000px.

Is there a reason for this arbitrary limit?

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JSfiddle example... but jsfiddle doesn't have 1.4.3rc

Basically, you should never see red again after is scrolls offscreen the first time:

​http://jsfiddle.net/uMeHf/1/

[snover]

Good question.

[jitter]

This isn't much of a help but might serve as a starting point.

The limit was introduced in August 2006 ​Relevant Commit to apparently fix something in Opera (at that time approx. Opera 9.00 was the current version)

For me your test-case doesn't fail but thats because jQuery 1.4.2 is used.

Here I provide the same test-case again but this time with jQuery 1.4.3rc2 used and the animation fails

​http://jsbin.com/ewulu/3 (source view: ​http://jsbin.com/ewulu/3/edit)

[snover]

Retargeting due to severity of regressions in 1.4.3.

[dmethvin]

#7287 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[snover]

Retargeting to next minor release.

[Rick Waldron]

#7403 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[addyosmani]

#7450 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[[email protected]…]

Here's a heuristic fix for the bug.

Change line 6624 from:

		return r && r > -10000 ? r : 0;

to:

		return r;

Tested for this particular problem in FF 3.6.12, Chrome 7.0.517.44, IE 8.0.7600.16385, Safari 5.0.2 and Opera 10.63.3516. Works like expected.

[anonymous]

Sorry, I'm totally dumb, haven't noticed it's been found already. You can remove my comments.

[jitter]

#7532 is a duplicate of this ticket.

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Just another test case to fiddle with: ​http://jsfiddle.net/mwJkJ/

[snover]

3rd party ​pull request

[anonymous]

I've implemented

return r /*&& r > -10000 ? r : 0*/;

and look forward to a fix in a future release

[Rick Waldron]

#7625 is a duplicate of this ticket.

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Replying to [email protected]…:

Change line 6624 from:

		return r && r > -10000 ? r : 0;

to:

		return r;

Tested for this particular problem in FF 3.6.12, Chrome 7.0.517.44, IE 8.0.7600.16385, Safari 5.0.2 and Opera 10.63.3516. Works like expected.

I suggest reducing the amount of changed code by only removing the cause of the problem and not the additional validity check by using the following code:

return r ? r : 0;

or

return r || 0;

The check if r is true-ish is in no way related to this bug and should be kept in place in case it breaks something else.

[jitter]

#7657 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[jitter]

#7760 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[jitter]

#7801 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[anonymous]

Great, got it fixed as daniel.baulig and lazahu suggested, thanks. It kept me up whole night yesterday

[anonymous]

Hacking the core as described unfortunately is no solution for distributed packages.

This bug doesn't even show up in the change log for jQuery 1.5, does that mean it hasn't been fixed (yet?) in the future version? Some details from one of the developers would be greatly appreciated!

[dmethvin]

#7859 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[ajpiano]

To which jQuery 1.5 changelog do you refer? There is not an official jQuery 1.5 changelog yet, because there is no jQuery 1.5 yet. If you're referring to the changelog in the recent community updates post, that is just a log of changes that have happened thus far, it is not a complete changelog.

When the bug is fixed, this ticket will be closed. It is certainly something we are planning to address for 1.5 - otherwise we'll be getting dupes on this issue until the end of time. :)

[Colin Snover]

Remove patch for very early versions of Opera 9 that made it impossible to animate values smaller than -10000. Fixes #7193. Thanks to igorw for initial patch & test case.

Changeset: 4eeae8b0bc789ad525e98568cffb37b04b27ae84

[jitter]

#7935 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[jitter]

#8341 is a duplicate of this ticket.