jquery color animation throws Invalid property value intermittently

Question

I\'m trying to animate the background for an ASP.Net hyperlink to do a yellow fade on an update panels refresh. So far it works almost all of the time, but occasionally a j

Answer 1

The fix on the jQuery site is below (should be in a future release). In effects.core.js, change:

if ( fx.state == 0 ) {
    fx.start = getColor( fx.elem, attr );
    fx.end = getRGB( fx.end );
}

to:

if (!fx.colorInit) {
    fx.start = getColor(fx.elem, attr);
    fx.end = getRGB(fx.end);
    fx.colorInit = true;
}

This totally cleared the problem up for me.