Tween <div> to another <div>

Question

I am trying to learn jQuery and am doing a small project to try to learn how to practice, but I am fixated on how to animate the movement of one div into another div.

To clarify, when I click on one div, I would like the other div to move to the div I clicked on. I use appendTo () to move it there, but as you already know, the movement is instantaneous, and I would like to animate the movement.

Here is a scenario of what is currently happening: https://jsfiddle.net/Chirpizard/jyatn89r/

Just click on the blue dot to see what happens.

Here is the JS:

$(document).ready(function () {
  $(".node").click(function() {
    if ($(this).hasClass('unlocked')) {
      $("#main-char").appendTo(this).animate( {
        top: "+=50"
      }, 1000, function() {
      });
      $(".node").removeClass("activeNode"); //Removes all instances of activeNode
      $(this).addClass('activeNode') //Adds activeNode class to the node clicked on
    }
    else {
      console.log("Sorry, broken");
    }
  });
});

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Answer 1

... , appendTo..

$(document).ready(function () {

  $(".node").click(function() {

    if ($(this).hasClass('unlocked')) {
      $("#main-char").animate( {
        top: $(this).offset().top -27
      }, 1000, function() {
      });

      $(".node").removeClass("activeNode"); //Removes all instances of activeNode
      $(this).addClass('activeNode') //Adds activeNode class to the node clicked on
    }
    else {
      console.log("Sorry, broken");
    }
  });

});

DEMO

Answer 2

appendTo() ?

JS:

$(document).ready(function () {

  $(".node").click(function() {

    if ($(this).hasClass('unlocked')) {
      $("#main-char").animate( {
        top: $(this).offset().top -25
      }, 1000, function() {
      });

      $(".node").removeClass("activeNode"); //Removes all instances of activeNode
      $(this).addClass('activeNode') //Adds activeNode class to the node clicked on
    }
    else {
      console.log("Sorry, broken");
    }
  });

});

CODEPEN DEMO

Answer 3

$(document).ready(function () {

  $(".node").click(function() {
    var nodePosition = $(this).position();
    $("#main-char").animate( {
        top: nodePosition.top + 30
      }, 1000);
  });

});

#world-map {
  background: #222;
  min-height: 1500px;
  position: relative;
  padding: 30px 0 0 0;
}

#main-char {
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  border-radius: 100%;
  background: red;
  margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 50%;
  margin-left: -15px;
}

.node {
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  border-radius: 100%;
  background: blue;
  box-sizing: padding-box;
  margin: 20px auto 0 auto;
  display: block;
}

.node1 {
  top: 100px;
}

.node2 {
  top: 400px;
}

.node3 {
  top: 700px;
}

.node4 {
  top: 1000px;
}

.node5 {
  top: 1300px;
}

.activeNode {
  background: #aaa;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="world-map">
      <div id="main-char"></div>
      <div class="node node1 unlocked"></div>
      <div class="node node2 unlocked"></div>
      <div class="node node3 unlocked"></div>
      <div class="node node4 unlocked"></div>
      <div class="node node5 unlocked"></div>

</div>

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