In order to "animate" colour, the browser needs to know "in-between" colours - e.g. fading from black to white goes through shades of grey....
There's a "color" (American spelling) plugin that will do the trick - just add it and your existing code should work.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/color http://dev.jquery.com/~john/ticket/fx-rewrite2/ L yabado wrote:
I am trying to apply a color animation to a textarea when text is appended to it. Here is what I have... HTML: <textarea id="reply"><textarea> JQ: $("#reply") .animate({backgroundColor:'red'}, "fast") .append("\n"+insertText+"\n") .animate({backgroundColor:'white'}, "fast"); This is not working, what am I mssing? The color does not change at all? TIA