title: Modify the show/hide function to only scale width, not height?
body: <p>As the title implies, I'm using jQuery's show and hide functions to hide and show elements. However, I don't want to scale in the height of the element, just the width.</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking about using the animate function but I wasn't sure if this was the best way to go about it.</p>
  
  <p>Also, I'd prefer not to have to set the height in the javascript as it might change in the markup.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally, what I would like to happen is when the function is called to hide an element the object's width goes from it's original width to 0 and it's alpha drops to 0 then the reverse would happen when I tell it to show.</p>