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

The newest jQuery UI business allows you to do background-color transforms on most objects. See here : http://jqueryui.com/demos/animate/

As for the guy asking about making a background transparent on roll-over to reveal an image would it not be simpler to build it like a normal jQuery image roll-over like the ones people use to switch nav images?