I believe at least one potential problem here is that the callback from .fadeOut() (which then calls the .animate() ) may execute multiple times for the number of children elected from . Children('*') . This should probably be reworked in such a way that the callback is only executed once.
Running the following sample I can see the width is not 0 until the first callback is fired.
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