How do you pause before fading an element out using jQuery?

Question

I would like to flash a success message on my page.

I am using the jQuery fadeOut method to fade and then remove the element. I can increase the duration to make it last longer, however this looks strange.

What I would like to happen is have the element be displayed for five seconds, then fade quickly, and finally be removed.

How can you animate this using jQuery?

Answer 1

use setTimeout(function(){$elem.hide();}, 5000);

Where $elem is the element you wish to hide, and 5000 is the delay in milliseconds. You can actually use any function within the call to setTimeout(), that code just defines a small anonymous function for simplicity.

Answer 2

var $msg = $('#msg-container-id');
$msg.fadeIn(function(){
    setTimeout(function(){
        $msg.fadeOut(function(){
            $msg.remove();
        });
    },5000);
});

Answer 3

For a pure jQuery approach, you can do

$("#element").animate({opacity: 1.0}, 5000).fadeOut();

It's a hack, but it does the job

Answer 4

While @John Sheehan's approach works, you run into the jQuery fadeIn/fadeOut ClearType glitch in IE7. Personally, I'd opt for @John Millikin's setTimeout() approach, but if you're set on a pure jQuery approach, better to trigger an animation on a non-opacity property, such as a margin.

var left = parseInt($('#element').css('marginLeft'));
$('#element')
    .animate({ marginLeft: left ? left : 0 }, 5000)
    .fadeOut('fast');

You can be a bit cleaner if you know your margin to be a fixed value:

$('#element')
    .animate({ marginLeft: 0 }, 5000)
    .fadeOut('fast');

EDIT: It looks like the jQuery FxQueues plug-in does just what you need:

$('#element').fadeOut({
    speed: 'fast',
    preDelay: 5000
});

Answer 5

Following on from dansays' comment, the following seems to work perfectly well:

$('#thing') .animate({dummy:1}, 2000) .animate({ etc ... });

Answer 6

The new delay() function in jQuery 1.4 should do the trick.

$('#foo').fadeIn(200).delay(5000).fadeOut(200).remove();

Answer 7

The first one works best.

Answer 8

dansays's answer just doesn't work for me. For some reason, remove() runs immediately and the div disappears before any animations happen.

The following works, however (by omitting the remove() method):

$('#foo').fadeIn(500).delay(5000).fadeOut(500);

I don't mind if there are hidden divs on the page (there shouldn't be more than a few anyway).