Linkable image movement? (Explained in post)

Linkable image movement? (Explained in post)

I'm wondering if with Jquery you can create an animation where an image moves, but is linkable.

I've been looking around and found some tutorials on image animation with Jquery, but nothing about if you can make them linkable.

What I want to do is, on a layout I am designing I have tabs on the design that I made graphically and will be images, and I'd like to code it so that the tabs slide "out" to the left and link to a page. I want it to be like you are "pulling" the tab you put your cursor over out, while the others stay stationary. Then when you move your cursor to the next tab, the original tab you had moused over goes back to its "unpulled" state and the new moused over tab "pulls out"

I'd love to have the animation move the other tab back in while the new one is pulling out, but I am completely fine with the coding being so that the tabs only pull out and the original just "hop" back to it's unpulled state instead of an animation of it moving back.

I'm honestly not sure if this is doable with the tab's being links or how I'd set up the functions, etc, or if there is a plugin that would help me achieve this.

Anything at all, even if just saying "doing an image animation like that with links is not possible" or some functions that would work with it would be greatly appreciated.