Question

I am wondering how can I hide/remove a tag after a certain amount of time. Is there some built in thing or do I do use threading(if javascript can do this?)

Answer 1

You don’t even need jQuery for the “5 seconds” part: JavaScript’s built-in setTimeout function will do the trick. Incorporating jQuery for the DOM manipulation, you get:

setTimeout(function() {
  $("#the-tag-you-want-to-remove").remove();
}, 5000);

Here the 5000 represents 5000 milliseconds, or 5 seconds. You can pass setTimeout an existing function or (as in this case) an anonymous function.