Possible to animate jQuery prepend?

Question

I am prepending some data to my page on a button click and instead of just populating immediately on the page, I was wondering if there is a way to animate the prepend() using slideToggle or CSS animation.

Here is my current script:

var data = $('.data').html();
var insert = '<div class="data-container">'+ data +'</div>';
$('button').click(function(){
    $('.data-container').remove();
    $('.initial').prepend(insert);
});

and a JSFiddle

Answer 1

You have to do something like this:

var data = $('.data').html();
var insert = '<div class="data-container">'+ data +'</div>';
$('button').click(function(){
    $('.data-container').remove();
    $('.initial').hide();
    $('.initial').prepend(insert);
    $('.initial').slideToggle();

});

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