How to Call a Function After Some Time in jQuery

January 5, 2021 admin

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to call a function after some time in jQuery. You can simply use jQuery’s delay() method to set the delay time interval. Here is an example:

How to Call a Function After Some Time in jQuery

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<meta charset="utf-8">
		<title>How to Call a Function After Some Time</title>
		<style type="text/css">
			.box{
				display: none;
				width: 300px;
			       border: 15px solid green;
			       padding: 50px;
			}
		</style>
		<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			function showBox(){
				$("div.box").fadeIn(600);
			}
			$(document).ready(function(){ 
				$(".show-box").click(function(){
					$(this).text('loading...').delay(1000).queue(function() {
						$(this).hide();
						showBox(); 
						$(this).dequeue();
					});        
				});
			});
		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<button type="button" class="show-box">Show Box</button>
		<div class="box"></div>
	</body>
</html>