jQuery Effect: Set a timer to delay execution of subsequent items in the queue

Last update on May 30 2022 10:20:56 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery Effect : Exercise-3 with Solution

Set a timer to delay execution of subsequent items in the queue.

Sample Data :
HTML code:

<body>
<button id="btn1">Start Animate</button>
<button id="btn2">Stop Animate</button>
<div id="box" style="background:#5858FA;height:100px;width:100px;margin:6px;"></div>  
</body>

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Set a timer to delay execution of subsequent items in the queue</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>delay() method sets different speed values.</p>
<button>Click to fade in boxes with a delay</button></p>
<div id="div1" style="width:100px;height:90px;display:none;background-color:#9F81F7;"></div><br>
<div id="div2" style="width:100px;height:90px;display:none;background-color:#0B610B;"></div><br>
<div id="div3" style="width:100px;height:90px;display:none;background-color:#61210B;"></div><br>
</div>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code :

 $("button").click(function(){
    $("#div1").delay(800).fadeIn();
    $("#div2").delay(2400).fadeIn();
    $("#div3").delay(4000).fadeIn();
  });

Note:
delay( duration [, queueName ] ) method is used to set a timer to delay execution of subsequent items in the queue. It has the following parameters :

duration : An integer represents the number of milliseconds to delay execution of the next item in the queue. [Type: Integer]
queueName : A string containing the name of the queue (Default -> fx, the standard effects queue). [Type: String]

Live Demo:

See the Pen jquery-effect-exercise-3 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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