JQuery fade background color menu
At the moment of writing this script the JQuery core library doesn't support background color fading. If you want to use background fading you need to use the JQuery color plugin. This script demonstrates how to use JQuery with the color plugin to fade the background color of menu buttons.
ScriptBreaker.com - JQuery fade background color menu <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.5.2.min.js"> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.color-1.4.js"> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { // on mouse over $("ul#nav li").hover(function () { if(!$(this).parent().hasClass("selected")){ $(this).animate({ backgroundColor: '#A3D6F5' }, 'fast'); } }, // on mouse out function () { // animate backgroundColor to nill color = $("div#wrapper").css("background-color"); $(this).stop().animate({ backgroundColor: color }, 'fast'); }); });