[jquery] jQuery: how do I animate a div rotation?

Based on Peter Ajtai answer, here is a small jquery plugin that may help others. I didn't test on Opera and IE9 but is should work on these browsers too.

$.fn.rotate = function(until, step, initial, elt) {
    var _until = (!until)?360:until;
    var _step = (!step)?1:step;
    var _initial = (!initial)?0:initial;
    var _elt = (!elt)?$(this):elt;

    var deg = _initial + _step;

    var browser_prefixes = ['-webkit', '-moz', '-o', '-ms'];
    for (var i=0, l=browser_prefixes.length; i<l; i++) {
      var pfx = browser_prefixes[i]; 
      _elt.css(pfx+'-transform', 'rotate('+deg+'deg)');
    }

    if (deg < _until) {
      setTimeout(function() {
          $(this).rotate(_until, _step, deg, _elt); //recursive call
      }, 5);
    }
};

$('.my-elt').rotate()