How do you pause before fading an element out using jQuery?

Question

I would like to flash a success message on my page.

I am using the jQuery fadeOut method to fade and then remove the element. I can increase the duratio

Answer 1

use setTimeout(function(){$elem.hide();}, 5000);

Where $elem is the element you wish to hide, and 5000 is the delay in milliseconds. You can actually use any function within the call to setTimeout(), that code just defines a small anonymous function for simplicity.