The reason your attempt wasn’t working, is because the two animations (fade-in and fade-out) were working against each other. Right before an object became visible, it was still invisible and so the animation for fading-out would run. Then, the fraction of a second later when that same object had become visible, the fade-in animation would … Read more
If you want to specifically animate the background color of an element, I believe you need to include jQueryUI framework. Then you can do: $(‘#myElement’).animate({backgroundColor: ‘#FF0000’}, ‘slow’); jQueryUI has some built-in effects that may be useful to you as well. http://jqueryui.com/demos/effect/
$(“div”).fadeIn().css(“display”,”inline-block”);
You can do the threading yourself, but it might be easier to use the Trident library to handle it. If you create a setter on your class called (say, setOpacity), you can ask trident to interpolate the “opacity” field from 1.0 to 0.0 over a specific period of time (here’s some of the docs on … Read more