title: How do I use the jQuery UI color animation to change from an elements color and then back to it?
body: <p>I'm using the following snippet:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('input[value=NEW]:hidden').attr('value', '').parent().parent().animate({
                      backgroundColor: "#FF9933",
                      duration: 800
                  }).delay(500).animate({
                      duration: 800,
                      backgroundColor: '#ffffff'
                  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I would like to animate the element to the color "#FF9933" but then animate BACK to the color it was before changing.</p>
  
  <p>I tried just persisting the elements background color in a var and using it, but the jQuery UI animate didn't seem to like the RGB() string that .css() gave me.</p>
  
  <p>How would you do this?</p>