Question

Something like…

 $('.foo').live 'click', -> 
    setTimeout (()->$(this).parent().hide()), 5000

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

this in setTimeout is going to be either window or undefined. In this case, you’d be better off either wrapping with an anonymous function to close over this, or using bind(this) to bind the this object for the function

setTimeout((function() { return function() { $(this).parent().hide(); } })(), 5000);

or

var func = function() { $(this).parent().hide(); };
setTimeout(func.bind(this), 5000);

(I don’t know coffeescript very well, so hopefully this is the proper JS equivalent)

As a sidenote, doesn’t jquery have a function to delay a animation like this?