How to delay jquery animation?

Question

I can't seem to delay the showing of a div. I want to delay the animation by about 20 seconds is this possible???

$("#microcharcounter").delay(10000).show();

Answer 1

Try this:

$("#microcharcounter").delay(10000).show(0);

or this:

$("#microcharcounter").delay(10000).queue(function(n) {
    $(this).show();
    n();
});

The reason for this is that .delay() will only delay items in an animation queue. So you can make .show() a short animation by adding a duration of '0', or add it to the queue with .queue().