Animating the Menu control

The ASP.NET Menu control enables quick building of menus on websites. This recipe demonstrates how to add text animations, such as a blink effect and change of font color of a menu item on mouseover. The constructs used in this example are summarized in the following table:

Construct	Type	Description
$(".class")	jQuery selector	This matches all elements with the specified CSS class.
$("html_tag")	jQuery selector	This selects all elements with the specified HTML tag.
$(this)	jQuery object	This refers to the current jQuery object.
.css()	jQuery method	This gets the style property for the first matched element or sets the style property for every matched element.
.fadeIn()	jQuery method	This animates the opacity of the matched element by increasing it gradually until it reaches a value of 1, that is, it becomes opaque.
.fadeOut()	jQuery method	This animates the opacity of the matched element by decreasing it gradually...