Mootools Delay Issue

Question

I'm ultimately trying to delay the fade out by 5 seconds (page loads, 5 seconds later the fade out happens). But right now the bit of code below throwing a "delay is not a function" error.

el.fade('out').get('tween').chain(function(){
    el.destroy();
}).delay(5000);

Answer 1

Delay is a function method, this should work:

el.fade('out').get('tween').chain(function(){
    el.destroy();
}.delay(5000));

Answer 2

This works where el is a valid element. I used an item with id of demoitem to test it, so:

var el = $('demoitem');
(function(){
 el.fade('out').get('tween');
 el.destroy();
}).delay(5000);

delay() is a function which is can be chained to functions, not to the chain of an HTMLElement.