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Asked: 2026-05-14T00:32:35+00:00

Why does this empty the text immediately (ignoring delay)? $(‘#error_box_text’).html(‘error text’).delay(5000).html(”) # jQuery 1.4

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Why does this empty the text immediately (ignoring delay)?

$('#error_box_text').html('error text').delay(5000).html('')

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  1. Editorial Team

    delay will never delay regular methods – only those who are pushed to the animation/effect chain. If you want to delay your html() call, use queue ( http://api.jquery.com/queue/ ):

    $('#error_box_text').html('error text').delay(5000).queue(function() {
   $(this).html('')
});

    It would be nice if you could do

    $('#error_box_text').html('error text').delay(5000, function() { $(this).html('') });

    but this isn’t possible (yet).

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