我也有同样的问题，并通过包含jQuery UI来修复它。以下是完整的脚本:

<!-- include Google's AJAX API loader -->
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<!-- load JQuery and UI from Google (need to use UI to animate colors) -->
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("jqueryui", "1.5.2");
</script>


<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#menu ul li.item').hover(
    function() {
        $(this).stop().animate({backgroundColor:'#4E1402'}, 300);
        }, function () {
        $(this).stop().animate({backgroundColor:'#943D20'}, 100);
    });
});
</script>

为了达到理想的效果，我使用了CSS过渡和JQuery的组合;显然，不支持CSS过渡的浏览器不会动画，但它是一个轻量级的选项，适用于大多数浏览器，对我的要求是可接受的退化。

使用Jquery修改背景颜色:

   $('.mylinkholder a').hover(
        function () {
            $(this).css({ backgroundColor: '#f0f0f0' }); 
        },
        function () {
            $(this).css({ backgroundColor: '#fff' });
        }
    );

CSS使用过渡淡出背景颜色的变化

   .mylinkholder a
   {
   transition: background-color .5s ease-in-out;
   -moz-transition: background-color .5s ease-in-out;
   -webkit-transition: background-color .5s ease-in-out; 
  -o-transition: background-color .5s ease-in-out; 
   }

这些天jQuery颜色插件支持以下命名颜色:

aqua:[0,255,255],
azure:[240,255,255],
beige:[245,245,220],
black:[0,0,0],
blue:[0,0,255],
brown:[165,42,42],
cyan:[0,255,255],
darkblue:[0,0,139],
darkcyan:[0,139,139],
darkgrey:[169,169,169],
darkgreen:[0,100,0],
darkkhaki:[189,183,107],
darkmagenta:[139,0,139],
darkolivegreen:[85,107,47],
darkorange:[255,140,0],
darkorchid:[153,50,204],
darkred:[139,0,0],
darksalmon:[233,150,122],
darkviolet:[148,0,211],
fuchsia:[255,0,255],
gold:[255,215,0],
green:[0,128,0],
indigo:[75,0,130],
khaki:[240,230,140],
lightblue:[173,216,230],
lightcyan:[224,255,255],
lightgreen:[144,238,144],
lightgrey:[211,211,211],
lightpink:[255,182,193],
lightyellow:[255,255,224],
lime:[0,255,0],
magenta:[255,0,255],
maroon:[128,0,0],
navy:[0,0,128],
olive:[128,128,0],
orange:[255,165,0],
pink:[255,192,203],
purple:[128,0,128],
violet:[128,0,128],
red:[255,0,0],
silver:[192,192,192],
white:[255,255,255],
yellow:[255,255,0]

试试这个:

(function($) {  

            var i = 0;  

            var someBackground = $(".someBackground");  
            var someColors = [ "yellow", "red", "blue", "pink" ];  


            someBackground.css('backgroundColor', someColors[0]);  

            window.setInterval(function() {  
                i = i == someColors.length ? 0 : i;  
                someBackground.animate({backgroundColor: someColors[i]}, 3000);  
                i++;  
            }, 30);  

})(jQuery);  

你可以在这里预览示例:http://jquerydemo.com/demo/jquery-animate-background-color.aspx

简单地添加以下片段下面的jquery脚本和享受:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.color-animation/1/mainfile"></script>

参见示例

更多信息参考

我喜欢使用delay()来完成这个任务，这里有一个例子:

jQuery(element).animate({ backgroundColor: "#FCFCD8" },1).delay(1000).animate({ backgroundColor: "#EFEAEA" }, 1500);

这可以由函数调用，“element”是元素类/名称/等。元素将立即以#FCFCD8背景出现，稍等片刻，然后淡出为#EFEAEA。