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# YUI Library Examples: Animation: Animating XY Position

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## Animation: Animating XY Position

This demonstrates how to animate the `xy` position of an element.

Click anywhere to move the element to your click position.

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### Setting up the HTML

First we add some HTML to animate.

<div id="demo" class="yui-module"> <div class="yui-hd"> <h4>Animation Demo</h4> <a title="remove module" class="yui-remove"><em>x</em></a> </div> <div class="yui-bd"> <p>This an example of what you can do with the YUI Animation Utility.</p> <p><em>Follow the instructions above to see the animation in action.</em></p> </div> </div>

### Creating the Anim Instance

Now we create an instance of `Y.Anim`, passing it a configuration object that includes the `node` we wish to animate. We will set the `to` attribute later when then animation runs.

var anim = new Y.Anim({ node: '#demo', duration: 0.5, easing: Y.Easing.elasticOut });

### Changing Attributes

Next we need a `click` handler to set the `to` attribute for the `xy` behavior and run the animation.

var onClick = function(e) { anim.set('to', { xy: [e.pageX, e.pageY] }); anim.run(); };

### Running the Animation

Finally we add an event handler to run the animation when the document is clicked.

Y.get('document').on('click', onClick);

### Full Script Source

YUI().use('anim', function(Y) { var anim = new Y.Anim({ node: '#demo', duration: 0.5, easing: Y.Easing.elasticOut }); var onClick = function(e) { anim.set('to', { xy: [e.pageX, e.pageY] }); anim.run(); }; Y.get('document').on('click', onClick); });

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