title: Fade the background-color of a span tag with JQuery
body: <p>I'm trying to fade the background-color of a span tag using JQuery to emphasize when a change has occured.  I was thinking the code would be someting like the following inside the click handler, but I can't seem to get it working.  Can you show me where I went wrong?
  Thanks Russ.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("span").fadeOut("slow").css("background-color").val("FFFF99");
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  <p>That's better, but now it fades both the background-color of the span tag and the text value of the span tag too.  I'm trying to just fade the background-color and leave the text visible.  Can that be done?</p>