How do I animate a background color to transparent in jQuery?

Question

I can animate from transparent to color, but when I tell jquery to animate the backgroundColor: \'transparent\' it just changes to white. Any idea how to fix this?

Answer 1

$(selector)
    .css({backgroundColor:"#f00"})
    .animate({backgroundColor:"transparent"}, 2000, null, 
    function() { this.style.backgroundColor='transparent'; });

Not as clean because it fades the bg to white before making it transparent, but it's an option.