How do I stop an effect in jQuery

Question

I have a page that uses

$(id).show(\"highlight\", {}, 2000);

to highlight an element when I start a ajax request, that might fail so that

Answer 1

In my case, using below code does not work and keep your opacity value remain:

$('#identifier').stop(true, true).effect("pulsate", { times: 1 }, 1);

For me just remove opacity are working:

$('#identifier').stop(true, true).css('opacity','');