Question

When clicking on a certain element, I want another element’s background to become, say, red for x seconds before coming back to its original colour, all of this without using UI jQuery, only jQuery. Is it possible ?

Answer 1

var $el = $("#my-element"),
    x = 5000,
    originalColor = $el.css("background");

$el.css("background", "red");
setTimeout(function(){
  $el.css("background", originalColor);
}, x);