Can I fade in a background image (CSS: background-image) with jQuery?

Question

I have a div element with text in it and a background image, which is set via the CSS property background-image. Is it possible to fade in the back

Answer 1

You can give opacity value as

div {opacity: 0.4;}

For IE, you can specify as

div { filter:alpha(opacity=10));}

Lower the value - Higher the transparency.