.delay() not working when changing background-color of

Question

I am just learning JQUERY and I have been playing around with delay() I wrote a fiddle to show you... What I am trying to do is when a button is clicked, change the background-c

Answer 1

You can use delay with queue here

  $(".animation").css("background","blue").delay(700)
         .queue(function() {
            $(this).css("background", "red").dequeue();
   });

Wrap above snippet inside click handler.