Fade background image in and out with jQuery?

Question

So far, I\'ve tried a bunch of things to the effect of the following, without success:

Answer 1

You can fade backgound-images! in and out!

jQuery:

$('#yourdiv').animate({opacity: 0}, 0).css("background-image", "url(image.jpeg)").animate({opacity: 1}, 2500);

Edit:

This will fade the whole div not onley the background-image.