Question

I’m using a function to add a ‘Thank you’ message to a newsletter signup on success.

$('#subForm').animate({opacity : 1}, 300);
      } else {
        $('#subForm input[type="text"]').val('Thank you');
        $('#subForm').animate({opacity : 1}, 300);
      }
});

What I am trying to work out is how to remove the ‘Thank you’ value after a few seconds.

Answer 1

You can use setTimeout():

setTimeout(function() {
    $("#subForm input[type='text']").val("");
}, 1000);

The second argument stands for number of milliseconds of the delay.