How to pause and restart a css3 transition in jquery transit

Question

I'm using jquery transit to move and element. I want to pause the animation and continue it on click of a button. But i'm unable to figure out how to do it.

JSFiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/b4hwq/2/

I did try

stop().transition({});

but it is throwing an error.

Answer 1

You were most of the way there with .stop() I just added a little logic to tell it what to do when it stops.

Working Example

$('button').click(function () {
    if (!$('.box').hasClass('stop')) { // if the box does not have class "stop"
        $('.box').stop().transition({  // stop the transition
            x: $('.box').offset().left + $('.box').width() / 2  // where the box should be when it stops
        }, 1).addClass('stop'); // simple add class for easy button control  
    } else { // if the box has class "stop"
        $('.box').transition({
            x: '350px' 
        }, 5000).removeClass('stop'); // continue with regularly scheduled programming then remove "stop"
    }
});