I look around to learn how to fade a background color using jquery, but all of the answers lead to the `jquery color plugin`, which I don't wanna use. I want a pure jquery code to do it but can't seem to find it. And my work place are very reluctant on using plugings for their site, so I must use pure jquery.

I'm not an expert in jquery but this is what I came up with, which I think is not the solution:

```
$('#fade').css('background-color', '#2CAEA8').animate({'opacity': 0});

```

I just want the background to fade to white from any color. Please can someone show me the way? Thank you.