Fade in background color using jQuery?

Question

I would like to take a div and have the background fade to white on mouseenter and fade back out to black on mouseout. Any ideas on how to do this in jQuery?

Answer 1

with JQuery .hover()

  $("div" ).hover(
  function() {
     $(this).animate({backgroundColor: "#fff"}, 'slow');
  }, function() {
    $(this).animate({backgroundColor:"#000"},'slow');
  });

with JQuery .mouseover()

$("div")
  .mouseover(function() {
    $(this).animate({backgroundColor: "#fff"}, 'slow');
  })
  .mouseout(function() {
    $(this).animate({backgroundColor:"#000"},'slow');
  });

Note you have to use jquery-color (for animating colors). https://github.com/jquery/jquery-color/