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.
$('.delete-item').live('click', function(){
$(this).parent().parent().animate({backgroundColor: '#ff0000'}, 'slow').empty().remove();
});
As for as i know you can not animate the background color, you need the color plugin in order to do that.