jQuery Timed Event

Question

Is it possible, using jQuery, to fire off an event to set a div tag\'s text after n. seconds?

Thanks! George

Answer 1

I've been using the following jQuery plugins below for this. Delay can be used with chained functions, notNow can't.

Delay

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/delay

$('#animate-this').fadeIn().delay(500).fadeOut();

notNow

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/notNow

$.notNow(2000, function() { 
    alert('woolsworth');
});

Answer 2

var doIt = function() {
    $("div.my").text("My message");
}
setTimeout(doIt, 3000);

Answer 3

if you're using jQuery 1.4, you can always do:

$(function() {
   $('#divId').delay(3000).text('New Text');
});