Fade the background-color of a span tag with JQuery

Question

I\'m trying to fade the background-color of a span tag using JQuery to emphasize when a change has occured. I was thinking the code would be someting like the following ins

Answer 1

May be late to answer, but a straight solution to your answer.

 $('span').css('background-color','#').animate({backgroundColor: '#'},{duration:4000});

Simple. No need of jqueryUI plugin, 3rd party tools and all.