How to run two jQuery animations simultaneously?

Is it possible to run two animations on two different elements simultaneously? I need the opposite of this question Jquery queueing animations. I need to do something like this... $('#first').animate({ width: 200 }, 200); $('#second').animate({ width: 600 }, 200); but to run those two at the same time. The only thing I could think of would be using setTimeout once for each animation, but I don't t