Delay a link click

Question

Here's the fiddle I'm working with: http://jsfiddle.net/Scd9b/

How can I delay the href function after the click?

For example a user clicks on the link, the message slides down One moment... and after 2 seconds the user continues to the page its linked to.

Sorry everybody forgot to mention there are some anchors that are not linked.

Answer 1

You can simulate navigating to a page by settings window.location. So we will block the normal function of the link with preventDefault and then in a setTimeout, we will set the correct window.location:

https://codepen.io/anon/pen/PePLbv

$("a.question[href]").click(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    if (this.href) {
        var target = this.href;
        setTimeout(function(){
            window.location = target;
        }, 2000);
    }
});