How do I animate a scale css property using jquery?

Question

I am trying to have a circle div with the class of "bubble" to pop when a button is clicked using jQuery. I want to get it to appear from nothing and grow to its full size, but I am having trouble getting it to work. heres my code:

HTML Show bubble ... CSS

.bubble {
    transform: scale(0);
}

Javascript

 $('button').click(function(){
     $('.bubble').animate({transform: "scale(1)"}, 5000, 'linear');
 });

Answer 1

You can perform the transition using CSS and then just use Javascript as the 'switch' which adds the class to start the animation. Try this:

$('button').click(function() {
  $('.bubble').toggleClass('animate');
})

.bubble {
  transform: scale(0);
  width: 250px;
  height: 250px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background-color: #C00;
  transition: all 5s;
}

.bubble.animate {
  transform: scale(1);
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button>Toggle</button>
<div class='col-lg-2 col-md-2 well bubble'></div>