Yellow fade effect with JQuery - Stack Overflow

Snippet: JQuery: Yellow fade effect.js

jQuery.fn.highlight = function () {
    $(this).each(function () {
        var el = $(this);
        $("<div/>")
        .width(el.outerWidth())
        .height(el.outerHeight())
        .css({
            "position": "absolute",
            "left": el.offset().left,
            "top": el.offset().top,
            "background-color": "#ffff99",
            "opacity": ".7",
            "z-index": "9999999"
        }).appendTo('body').fadeOut(1000).queue(function () { $(this).remove(); });
    });
}

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The above came from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/848797/yellow-fade-effect-with-jquery/13106698#13106698