How to tell .hover() to wait?

Question

I have a drop down menu. Now when it\'s slided down to multiple levels, I\'d like it to add wait time for like 2 secs, before it disappears, so the user can get back in, whe

Answer 1

I would like to add to Paolo Bergantino that you can do this without the data attribut:

var timer;
$('.icon').hover(function() {
    clearTimeout(timer);
    $('li.icon > ul').slideDown('fast');
}, function() {
    timer = setTimeout(function() {
        $('li.icon > ul').slideUp('fast');
    }, 2000);
});