Question

Here is our code:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('a#installfc').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        window.open("http://www.site.com/ads/tr.php?src=source",'_parent');    
        $(this).html("Opening Download Link.. Please wait").delay(3000).html("Please run the installer after downloading");
    });
});
</script>

Basically, we want the message to display, and then 3 seconds later it changes to another message.

What am I doing wrong?

~ jquery noob.

Answer 1

Ive only really seen delay used when doing jQuery animation effects. Its possible there is a way to use that method to do what you want, but you could just as easily fall back to standard javascript setTimeout:

Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/TMgPD/

$('a#installfc').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        window.open("http://www.site.com/ads/tr.php?src=source");    
        $this = $(this);
        $this.html("Opening Download Link.. Please wait")
        setTimeout(function(){
                    $this.html("Please run the installer after downloading")
        },3000);
    });