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

jquery:

 $("div").fadeTo(1000 , 1);

css

    div {
     background: url("../images/example.jpg") no-repeat center; 
    opacity:0;
    Height:100%;
    }

html