jquery hide element not working

Question

I searched SO for a fix for this, found it, but my implementation seems flawed. Any clues?

 $(document).ready(function(){
  $('#updt').ajaxForm(function(data) {
   if (data==1){
    $('#success').fadeIn("slow");
    $('#updt').resetForm();
        setTimeout(function() {
     $("#success").hide('blind', {}, 500)
     }, 5000);

   }
   else if (data==2){
    $('#badserver').fadeIn("slow");
   }
   else if (data==3)
   {
    $('#bademail').fadeIn("slow");
   }
  });
 });

Answer 1

Instead of hide('blind', ..) try hide() - if this works, problem is, that you didn't load library with 'blind' hiding effect. (jQuery UI?)