Which is better practice…

[Rugg]

Hi,

I’m curious if there is a preferred method for writing the following jQuery animation syntax.

**Method One**

$(‘.box’).animate({ left: -20 }, 400, ‘linear’);

**Method Two** (pixels defined)

$(‘.box’).animate({ left: “-20px” }, 400, ‘linear’);

Also…is there a difference in single and double quotes? For example, **”-20px”** and **’-20px’**

Thanks for any suggestions

[SgtLegend]

There is no difference between using `”` and `’`, people say there is but I have never seen anything to suggest either one is slower or faster than the other.

As for the animation syntax you can generally just leave off the `px` and use integers as jQuery defaults everything to a pixel value anyway.

[TheDoc]

I prefer using direct numbers over defining the value as px.

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