jQuery, hide a div without disturbing the rest of the page

Question

Consider the page as below (pseudocode)

    
        

             
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Answer 1

.fadeOut() finishes with a display: none;, if you don't want to do that, use .fadeTo() instead (which won't set display at the end), like this:

$("header").delay(5000).fadeTo(2000, 0);

(note this uses the built-in .delay() function)

You can try out a full demo here, with the hover functionality fading and not causing movement as well, like this:

$("header").hover(function() { 
  $(this).fadeTo(600, 1); 
}, function() { 
  $(this).fadeTo(600, 0); 
});