.delay() not working when changing background-color of

Question

I am just learning JQUERY and I have been playing around with delay() I wrote a fiddle to show you... What I am trying to do is when a button is clicked, change the background-c

Answer 1

delay only works for items in the queue (such as animations).

For anything else, use a regular old timer:

$("#change").click(function() {
    var $el = $(".animation");

    $el.css("background", "blue");

    setTimeout(function () {
        $el.css("background", "red");
    }, 700);
});