Question

I have a dialog box that I wish to close after 5 seconds.

I have a delay statement in, but it just closes anyway, without any delay.

Here is the code:

$('#dialog').dialog('option','buttons',[]).html('File tags and info updated successfully.').delay(5000).dialog('close');

Any help with what I’m doing wrong and how to fix it?

Answer 1

delay function is for animation, it may be used like this:

$('#foo').slideUp(300).delay(800).fadeIn(400);

You should use simple setTimeout:

$('#dialog').dialog('option','buttons',[]).html('File tags and info updated successfully.');

setTimeout(function () {
  $('#dialog').dialog('close');
}, 5000);