[jquery] Can I fade in a background image (CSS: background-image) with jQuery?

I have a div element with text in it and a background image, which is set via the CSS property background-image. Is it possible to fade in the background image via jQuery?

div {_x000D_
  background-repeat: no-repeat;_x000D_
  background-position: center;_x000D_
  background-size: contain;_x000D_
  background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Konqi_svg.svg);_x000D_
  border: 1px solid #666;_x000D_
  height: 10em;_x000D_
}

<div>Text</div>

EDIT

I've made a fiddle exemplifying my scenario. Basically, this configures an initial background-image and a transition, and changes the background-image with jQuery. In my testing there is no animated transition between the two images.

EDIT2

My revised fiddle works!

jquery:

 $("div").fadeTo(1000 , 1);

css

    div {
     background: url("../images/example.jpg") no-repeat center; 
    opacity:0;
    Height:100%;
    }

html

<div></div>

I know i'm late, but I found a way using jquery which works on every browser(i tested it on chrome, firefox and Ie 9)and th fore-ground elements are always displayed instead of css3 transition property.

create 2 absolute wrapper and using z-index.

First set the elements that have to be in the fore-ground with the highest z-index property value, and the other elemets(all included in the body, so: body{}) with a lower z-index property value than the fore-ground elements'one , at least of 2 number lower.

HTML part:

         <div class="wrapper" id="wrapper1"></div>
         <div class="wrapper" id="wrapper2"></div>

css part:

        .fore-groundElements{              //select all fore-ground elements
                  z-index:0;               //>=0
        }
       .wrapper{
                  background-size: cover;
                  width:100%;
                  height:100%;
                  background-size: 100% 100%;
                  position:absolute;
         }

        #wrapper1{
               z-index:-1; 
        }


        #wrapper2{
                 z-index:-2;
         }
         body{

              height:100%;
              width:100%;
              margin:0px;   
              display:cover;
              z-index:-3                          //<=-3
         }

than the javascript/jquery one:

i needed to change the background image every three second so i used a set timeout.

this is the code:

  $(document).ready(main);

  var main = function(){

             var imgPath=[imagesPath1,..,...];                 // the array in which store the image paths

             var newWrapper;                     // the wrapper to display 
             var currentWrapper;                 //the current displayed wrapper which has to be faded
             var l=2;                             // the next image index  to be displayed, it is set to 2 because the first two position of the array(first two images) start already setted up
             var imgNumber= imgPath.length;        //to know when the images are over and restart the carousel
             var currentImg;                       //the next image path to be displayed


             $('#wrapper1').css("background-image", 'url'+imgPath[0]);         //pre set the first wrapper background images
             $('#wrapper2').css("background-image", 'url'+imgPath[1]);          //pre set the first wrapper background images   

             setInterval(myfunction,3000);                //refresh the background image every three seconds

             function myfunction(){
                    if(l===imgNumber-1){               //restart the carousel if every single image has already been displayed                  
                         l=0;
                     };

             if(l%2==0||l%2==2){                    //set the wrapper that will be displaied after the fadeOut callback function
                  currentWrapper='#wrapper1';         
                  newWrapper='#wrapper2';
             }else{
                  currentWrapper='#wrapper2';
                  newWrapper='#wrapper1';
             };
             currentImg=imgPath[l];
            $(currentWrapper).fadeOut(1000,function(){               //fade out the current wrapper, so now the back-ground wrapper is fully displayed
                  $(newWrapper).css("z-index", "-1");                //move the shown wrapper in the fore-ground
                  $(currentWrapper).css("z-index","-2");             //move the hidden wrapper in the back ground
                  $(currentWrapper).css("background-image",'url'+currentImg);                   // sets up the next image that is now shown in the actually hidden background wrapper
                  $(currentWrapper).show();          //shows the background wrapper, which is not visible yet, and it will be shown the next time the setInterval event will be triggered
                  l++;                         //set the next image index that will be set the next time the setInterval event will be triggered 
             });


         };                   //end of myFunction
  }                          //end of main

i hope that my answer is clear,if you need more explanation comment it.

sorry for my english :)

You can fade your background-image in various ways since Firefox 4 ...

Your CSS:

.box {
    background: #CCCCCC;
    -webkit-transition: background 0.5s linear;
    -moz-transition: background 0.5s linear;
    -o-transition: background 0.5s linear;
    transition: background 0.5s linear;
    }
.box:hover {
    background: url(path/to/file.png) no-repeat #CCCCCC;
    }

Your XHTML:

<div class="box">
    Some Text …
</div>

And thats it.

With modern browser i prefer a much lightweight approach with a bit of Js and CSS3...

transition: background 300ms ease-in 200ms;

Look at this demo:

http://codepen.io/nicolasbonnici/pen/gPVNbr

This is what worked for my, and its pure css

css

html {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
  }

  body {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
  }

  #bg {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    background: url('/image.jpg/') no-repeat center center fixed;

    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;

    -webkit-animation: myfirst 5s ; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
    animation: myfirst 5s ;
  }

  /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
  @-webkit-keyframes myfirst {
    from {opacity: 0.2;}
    to {opacity: 1;}
  }

  /* Standard syntax */
  @keyframes myfirst {
    from {opacity: 0.2;}
    to {opacity: 1;}
  }

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="bg">
    <!-- content here -->
  </div> <!-- end bg -->
</body>
</html>

It's not possible to do it just like that, but you can overlay an opaque div between the div with the background-image and the text and fade that one out, hence giving the appearance that the background is fading in.

You can give opacity value as

div {opacity: 0.4;}

For IE, you can specify as

div { filter:alpha(opacity=10));}

Lower the value - Higher the transparency.

So.. I was also looking into this matter and saw that most of the answers here are asking to fade the container element, not the actual background-image. Then a hack crossed my mind. We can give multiple background right? what if we overlay other color and make it transparent, like code below-

 background: url("//unsplash.it/500/400") rgb(255, 255, 255, 0.5) no-repeat center;

This code actually works stand alone. Try it. We gave a bg image and asked other white color with transparency on top of the image and Voila. TIP- we can give different colors and transparencies to get different filter kind of effect.

i have been searching for ages and finally i put everything together to find my solution. Folks say, you cannot fade-in/-out the background-image- id of the html-background. Thats definitely wrong as you can figure out by implementing the below mentioned demo

CSS:

html, body

height: 100%;   /* ges Hoehe der Seite -> weitere Hoehenangaben werden relativ hierzu ausgewertet */
overflow: hidden;   /*  hide scrollbars */
opacity: 1.0;
-webkit-transition: background 1.5s linear;
-moz-transition: background 1.5s linear;
-o-transition: background 1.5s linear;
-ms-transition: background 1.5s linear;
transition: background 1.5s linear;

Changing body's background-image can now easily be done using JavaScript:

switch (dummy)

case 1:

$(document.body).css({"background-image": "url("+URL_of_pic_One+")"});
waitAWhile();

case 2:
$(document.body).css({"background-image": "url("+URL_of_pic_Two+")"});
waitAWhile();