Question

How do I delay animation with jQuery?

I need to get a navigation to expand the width, and then expand the height, and then reversed for the reverse animation.

Code:

$(function() {
    $("#nav li").not("#logo, #nav li ul li").hover(function(){
        $(this).animate({width:"200px"},{queue:false,duration:1000});
    }, function(){
        $(this).animate({width:"30px"},{queue:false,duration:1000});
    });


    $("#nav li.parent").hover(function(){
        $(this).children("ul").animate({height:"40px"},{queue:false,duration:500});
    }, function(){
        $(this).children("ul").animate({height:"0px"},{queue:false,duration:500});
    });
});

Answer 1

use the jQuery .delay(N) methods, where N is the milliseconds to delay.

jsFiddle example