title: JQuery - "highlight" effect help
body: <p>Looking at the "highlight" JQuery effect:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Effects/Highlight" rel="noreferrer">http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Effects/Highlight</a></p>
  
  <p>You can change the background color of any DIV to fade in/out</p>
  
  <p>However, the example is to "highlight" on a "click" event</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("div").click(function () {
        $(this).effect("highlight", {}, 3000);
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I programatically call the highlight method as though it was a function within my code (instead of activate on a 'click' event)?</p>