Animating a Label control to create a digital clock

This recipe uses custom animation effects to create a blinking digital clock to display the current time in the hh:mm:ss format. The constructs used in this example are summarized in the following table:

Construct	Type	Description
$("#identifier")	jQuery selector	This selects an element using its ID.
.animate()	jQuery method	This performs a custom animation on the specified CSS properties.
Date	JavaScript object	This is an object that stores date/time information: year, month, day, hours, minutes, and seconds.
Date.getHours()	JavaScript function	This returns the number of hours from 0 to 23.
Date.getMinutes()	JavaScript function	This returns the number of minutes from 0 to 59.
Date.getSeconds()	JavaScript function	This returns the number of seconds from 0 to 59.
opacity	CSS property	This is the degree of transparency of the element.
setInterval(function, delay)	JavaScript function	This executes...