title: How to put in fade effect with jQuery in sprite Navigation
body: <p>I have a navigation that is made with sprites. It's almost perfect except the client wants a hover on and hover off effect on it. I used :hover for that but he would also like to have fadein effect with the sprites.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://elektrikhost.com/" rel="nofollow">Here is the site I am currently working on.</a></p>
  
  <p>I tried this bit:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  $("nav ul a").hover(function(){
    $(this).stop().fadeTo(300, 0.9);
  }, function(){
      $(this).stop().fadeTo(300, 0.1);
  }).fadeTo(0, 0.7);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that makes the whole navigation transparent. Thats not really what I want. I did add a dark background underneath the nav but it still didn't look right. I can't think of no other way to do this.</p>
  
  <p>Heres the CSS:</p>
  
  <pre><code>nav ul {  position: relative; z-index: 1000;  margin: -26px 0 0 11px; overflow: hidden; }
  nav ul li { display: inline; }
  nav ul li a { background: url(../images/nav-sprite.png); display: block; float: left; text-indent: -999px; margin: 0 auto; width: 667px; }    nav ul a#nav-1 { background-position: 0 0;  height: 48px; width: 103px; }
  nav ul a#nav-2 { background-position: -103px 0;  height: 48px; width: 129px; }
  nav ul a#nav-3 { background-position: -234px 0;  height: 48px; width: 156px; }
  nav ul a#nav-4 { background-position: -392px 0;  height: 48px; width: 147px; }
  nav ul a#nav-5 { background-position: -541px 0;  height: 48px; width: 124px; }
  nav ul a#nav-1:hover { background-position: 0 48px; }
  nav ul a#nav-2:hover { background-position: -103px 48px; }
  nav ul a#nav-3:hover { background-position: -234px 48px; }
  nav ul a#nav-4:hover { background-position: -392px 48px; }
  nav ul a#nav-5:hover { background-position: -541px 48px; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So the default navigation right now can'thave that transparent look. It needs to be normal. But when I hover over a button I want the hover effect to fade in and out.....Can this be done?</p>