I was reading around and saw this example from David Walsh about how to animate record deletion with mootools. Does the exact same effect exist in jquery? This is his mootools code.

window.addEvent('domready',function() {
  $$('a.delete').each(function(el) {
    el.addEvent('click',function(e) {
      e.stop();
      var parent = el.getParent('div');
      var request = new Request({
        url: 'mootools-record-delete.php',
        link: 'chain',
        method: 'get',
        data: {
          'delete': parent.get('id').replace('record-',''),
          ajax: 1
        },
        onRequest: function() {
          new Fx.Tween(parent,{
            duration:300
          }).start('background-color', '#fb6c6c');
        },
        onSuccess: function() {
          new Fx.Slide(parent,{
            duration:300,
            onComplete: function() {
              parent.dispose();
            }
          }).slideOut();
        }
      }).send();
    });
  });
});