Fading the text of a text input box

I hav开发者_开发百科e an input box $myInput = $('<input/>').val('Some text').

I would like to fade away the text of the input box, but not the input box itself. Can I use jQuery for that?

$myInput.animate({'color':'white'});

to fade it out. To fade it back

$myInput.animate({'color':'black'});

I assume you have white background on input

You can use the color animation plugin to color the text to the input's background color (most probably white).