title: jquery animate the page background-color on page load
body: <p>I'm attempting to just change the background colour of a webpage upon page load. I see no reason why this shouldn't work, "body" is the correct element I wish to manipulate.  I am using <a href="http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Effects/animate" rel="nofollow">http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Effects/animate</a> as a reference.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function(){
      $("body").animate({ backgroundColor: "#000000" }, 1000);
  });
  </code></pre>