Jquery background animate

Question

Is it possible to animate the background-color in jQuery, because it is not working.

$(\'#something\').animate({
    background :\"red\"
}, 1000         


        

Answer 1

Using similar syntax (...{background-color :"red"}...), I get the error

SyntaxError: Unexpected token -

I was able to get it working by encapsulating the CSS property background-color in single quotes:

$('#something').animate({
    'background-color' :"red"
}, 1000);