Fade a color to white (increasing brightness)

Question

I want to make a text box in .NET \"glow\" yellow, and then \"fade\" to white (basically, by incrementally increasing the brightness). I think Stackoverflow does this after you\

Answer 1

You didn't originally specify a technology when I submitted this answer, but here's how you'd do it using jQuery.

UI/Effects/Highlight.

$("div").click(function () {
      $(this).effect("highlight", {}, 3000);
});