Can I fade in a background image CSS background-image with jQuery

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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    x000D   x000D  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    x000D   lt div gt Text lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    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

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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

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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  quot   unsplash it 500 400 quot   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

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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

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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   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt   lt head gt       lt title gt  lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt     lt div id  bg  gt       lt  -- content here -- gt     lt  div gt   lt  -- end bg -- gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt

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jquery       div   fadeTo 1000   1     css      div        background  url     images example jpg   no-repeat center       opacity 0      Height 100           html   lt div gt  lt  div gt

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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             lt div class  wrapper  id  wrapper1  gt  lt  div gt            lt div class  wrapper  id  wrapper2  gt  lt  div gt    css part            fore-groundElements                 select all fore-ground elements                   z-index 0                   gt  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                             lt  -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

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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

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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    lt div class  box  gt      Some Text      lt  div gt    And thats it

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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 - gt  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

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