Jquery, changing background image with timer

Question

I have two background images I am using for this website and I want them to change automatically every 5 seconds. Can someone please look at my jQuery code and tell me what I am doing wrong?

$(function() {
    var body = $(‘body’);
    var backgrounds = new Array(
        ‘url(images/hso-palmtree-background.jpg)’,
        ‘url(images/hso-boardwalk-background.jpg)’
    );

    var current = 0;

    function nextBackground() {
        body.css(
           ‘background’,
            backgrounds[current = ++current % backgrounds.length]
        );

        setTimeout(nextBackground, 5000);
    }

    setTimeout(nextBackground, 5000);
    body.css(‘background’, backgrounds[0]);
});

Solution

You code is correct, you just need to change the backticks. Change ‘ to '.

Here is a cleaned revision: http://jsfiddle.net/X2NqX/

$(function () {
    var body = $('body');
    var backgrounds = [
      'url(http://static.jsbin.com/images/jsbin_static.png)', 
      'url(http://static.jsbin.com/images/popout.png)'];
    var current = 0;

    function nextBackground() {
        body.css(
            'background',
        backgrounds[current = ++current % backgrounds.length]);

        setTimeout(nextBackground, 5000);
    }
    setTimeout(nextBackground, 5000);
    body.css('background', backgrounds[0]);
});

Comments

[drooh]

Works good, in my case I had to reset the CSS as it overrode the style sheet, example mainImg.css({ 'background':backgrounds[0], 'background-repeat':'repeat-x', 'background-position':'top', 'height':'654px', 'position':'absolute', 'top':'187px', 'width':'100%', 'z-index':'-1', });

[Harrison Cramer]

How would one add a css-transition to this? Apologies as this question is pretty old.