delay JQuery effects

Question

I want to fade out an element and all its child elements after a delay of a few seconds. but I haven\'t found a way to specify that an effect should start after a specified

Answer 1

I use this pause plugin I just wrote

$.fn.pause = function(duration) {
    $(this).animate({ dummy: 1 }, duration);
    return this;
};

Call it like this :

$("#mainImage").pause(5000).fadeOut();

Note: you don't need a callback.

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Edit: You should now use the jQuery 1.4. built in delay() method. I haven't checked but I assume its more 'clever' than my plugin.