Nick's Test Page

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/dot-luv/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="http://github.com/caolan/async/raw/master/lib/async.js"></script>
<div class='example'>
    <span> One </span>
    <span> Two </span>
    <span> Three </span>
<div>

JavaScript

async.forEachSeries($('.example span'), function(span, callback) {
  $(span).hide('slow', callback);
});