Question

I’m using Joomla 2.5 and I use below code to output error messages to the user at the backend.

JFactory::getApplication()->enqueueMessage(JText::_('Error Message goes here'));

What I want to do is hide the error message after few seconds. How can I do it? Do I have to use jQuery or Mootools ? Does it already contains in the Joomla ?

I’m new to Joomla & Hope someone will help me out. Thanks

Answer 1

I have not come across any inbuilt method that joomla provides for this. But you can try this-

<script>!window.jQuery && document.write('<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js"><\/script>');</script>  
<script>jQuery("#system-message").fadeOut(4000);    </script>

As per comment you can try this-

setTimeout(function() {
    jQuery('#system-message').fadeOut('fast');
}, 5000);