jQuery "blinking highlight" effect on div?

jQuery UI Highlight Effect is what you're looking for.

$("div").click(function () {      $(this).effect("highlight", {}, 3000);});

The documentation and demo can be found here

Edit:
Maybe the jQuery UI Pulsate Effect is more appropriate, see here

Edit #2:
To adjust the opacity you could do this:

$("div").click(function() {  // do fading 3 times  for(i=0;i<3;i++) {    $(this).fadeTo('slow', 0.5).fadeTo('slow', 1.0);  }});

...so it won't go any lower than 50% opacity.

javascript jquery css highlight effects

Take a look at http://jqueryui.com/demos/effect/. It has an effect named pulsate that will do exactly what you want.

$("#trigger").change(function() {$("#div_you_want_to_blink").effect("pulsate");});

javascript jquery css highlight effects

This is a custom blink effect I created, which uses setInterval and fadeTo

HTML -

<div id="box">Box</div>

JS -

setInterval(function(){blink()}, 1000);    function blink() {        $("#box").fadeTo(100, 0.1).fadeTo(200, 1.0);    }

As simple as it gets.

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