[jquery] jQuery autohide element after 5 seconds

Is it possible to automatically hide an element in a web page 5 seconds after the form loads using jQuery?

Basically, I've got

<div id="successMessage">Project saved successfully!</div>

that I'd like to disappear after 5 seconds. I've looked at jQuery UI and the hide effect but I'm having a little trouble getting it work the way I want it to.

<script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
            function runEffect() {

                var selectedEffect = 'blind';

                var options = {};

                $("#successMessage").hide(selectedEffect, options, 500);
            };

            $("#successMessage").click(function() {
                runEffect();
                return false;
            });
        });
    </script>

I'd like the click function to be removed and add a timeout method that calls the runEffect() after 5 seconds.

This question is related to jquery jquery-ui

The answer is


jQuery(".success_mgs").show(); setTimeout(function(){ jQuery(".success_mgs").hide();},5000);


I think, you could also do something like...

setTimeout(function(){
    $(".message-class").trigger("click");
}, 5000);

and do your animated effects on the event-click...

$(".message-class").click(function() {
    //your event-code
});

Greetings,


$('#selector').delay(5000).fadeOut('slow');

This is how you can set the timeout after you click.

$(".selectorOnWhichEventCapture").on('click', function() {
    setTimeout(function(){
        $(".selector").doWhateverYouWantToDo();
    }, 5000);
});

//5000 = 5sec = 5000 milisec


Please note you may need to display div text again after it has disappeared. So you will need to also empty and then re-show the element at some point.

You can do this with 1 line of code:

$('#element_id').empty().show().html(message).delay(3000).fadeOut(300);

If you're using jQuery you don't need setTimeout, at least not to autohide an element.


You use setTimeout on you runEffect function :

function runEffect() {
    setTimeout(function(){
        var selectedEffect = 'blind';
        var options = {};
        $("#successMessage").hide(selectedEffect, options, 500)
     }, 5000);
}

You can try :

setTimeout(function() {
  $('#successMessage').fadeOut('fast');
}, 30000); // <-- time in milliseconds

If you used this then your div will be hide after 30 sec.I also tried this one and it worked for me.