I want to change the background color of \'exampleDiv\' from the original white background to when I call the code below to immediate change the background yellow and then f
I came across the same issue and ultimately it turned out to be multiple call of jquery's js file on the page.
While this works absolutely fine with any other methods and also with animate when tried with other css properties like left, but it doesn't work for background color property in animate method.
Hence, I removed the additional call of jquery's js file and it worked absolutely fine for me.