Animate background image change with jQuery

Posted by Jonathan Lyon on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Jonathan Lyon
Published on 2010-06-06T11:05:32Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 11:12 UTC
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Hi

I finally have this working now but would like to know how I can use JQuery's animate function to make the background image changes fade in nicely when you hover over the list items on the homepage:-

http://www.thebalancedbody.ca/

The Code to make this happen so far is:-

  $("ul#frontpage li#277 a").hover(
   function () {
     $('#homepage_container').css('background-image', 'url(http://www.thebalancedbody.ca/wp-content/themes/balancedbody_V1/images/nutrition_background.jpg)');
     },function () {
     $('#homepage_container').css('background-image', 'url(http://www.thebalancedbody.ca/wp-content/themes/balancedbody_V1/images/default_background.jpg)');
     }
    );

  $("ul#frontpage li#297 a").hover(
   function () {
     $('#homepage_container').css('background-image', 'url(http://www.thebalancedbody.ca/wp-content/themes/balancedbody_V1/images/vibration_training.jpg)');
     },function () {
     $('#homepage_container').css('background-image', 'url(http://www.thebalancedbody.ca/wp-content/themes/balancedbody_V1/images/default_background.jpg)');
     }
    );

etc etc

How would I add the ANIMATE function to this please - thanks!!!

Thanks

Jonathan

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