How do I animate a glowing effect on text?

Question

I haven\'t really been able to find any good simple tutorials an animating a glow effect. How do I animate glowing on text?

Answer 1

You can use .animate to cycle to a chosen colour to create a "highlight" effect which is presumably what "glowing" means.

$(".confirm_selection").hover(function() {
    $(this).animate({
        color: "red"
    }, 2000);
}, function() {
    $(this).animate({
        color: "black"
    }, 2000);
});

You can try it here.

NOTE: Colour animation requires the use of either the colour animation plugin, or jQuery UI (which I assume you are already using as it has been included in your fiddle).