Before you can animate anything, you need to know what you're animating. That’s where targeting comes in. In GSAP, the target is the first thing you pass to any animation method, like gsap.to() or gsap.from(). It tells GSAP which element(s) to animate. Knowing how to target elements is important because there are different ways to do it, and each one works best in different situations. ### Targeting by Class Name