jQuery animate help
<p>This isn't working. I'm trying to replicate the animate to red and then remove effect as in the WordPress admin. The element gets removed, but it doesn't animate before that. </p>

<pre><code>$('.delete-item').live('click', function(){
            $(this).parent().parent().animate({backgroundColor: '#ff0000'}, 'slow').empty().remove();
        });
</code></pre>
