Question

I’m trying to open all links on a page when the href contains certain text, at the moment I’m using

$('a[href*="/steve"]').each(function() {
  window.open($(this).attr('href') );   
});

now the page I’m using contains a lot of links with that text in the href so it spams me with open windows in a very short amount of time and I would like to add a delay so it has time to open and wait about 5 seconds before opening the next. I was trying to use .delay but can’t get it working as I’m pretty new and didn’t know exactly where to put it.

Answer 1

You can do this :

$('a[href*="/steve"]').each(function(index) {
    setTimeout(
         function(href){window.open(href)},
         (index+1)*5000, $(this).attr('href')
    );
});

The idea is to call setTimeout with an ever increasing delay.